Re: Proposal: Rolling Release

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 19:24:58 +0100,
  Olivier Galibert <galibert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:58:52AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Can I update from up-to-date fedora N to fedora N+1 through a command
> line ssh connection now?  Or is that still unsupported?

It might work.

> And if yes, how?  Is it just changing the repository to N+1 and yum
> update?

Yes. (Well you would want to use yum upgrade, but on Fedora the default
is to have obsoletes=1 . You might also want to have skip_broken=1 .
Afterwords you'll want to check for orphaned packages and do something with
them. You can use package-cleanup --orphans to get a list.

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