Re: Proposal: Rolling Release

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Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
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Subject: Proposal: Rolling Release
From: Eric Springer <erikina@xxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: 11/10/2008 07:42 AM


Thoughts? Flames? Ideas?



Actually, what Fedora needs already exists: preupgrade

It just needs to be turned into a mandatory update tool with PackageKit. Joe Enduser needs to be able to click "Update Me!" and go from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 with a single click.

Already implemented. PackageKit hooks up to Preupgrade and you would get a desktop blurb letting you know that when a subsequent release of Fedora is available.

The real missing piece is 'undo' when you find out that a change in the new version breaks something that you need. Does anyone know if that actually works on systems using conary (i.e. can you back up a major revision)?

If that's not feasible, how about something else, useful in its own right: a migration tool that would let you move an existing system to different hardware or in/out of VMware/virtualbox, etc., preferably with the ability to keep everything but the system partitions intact and shared. Then when it is time to upgrade, you could migrate into a virtualbox image or spare machine, upgrade that, then after testing your apps and usage, migrate it to the host hardware.

Or if that's too complicated, how about an option to pre-allocate a spare system partition during the initial install for the next version and have that upgrade process give you a dual-boot system so you have a way back. Then the next upgrade would rotate back to the first partition, and so on.

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