Re: KDE, spins, and minimal install are nonproduct?

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On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 10:28 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Dan Mossor <danofsatx@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > On 05/05/2015 08:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Is KDE workstation product or nonproduct?
>> > > What about minimal install?
>> > >
>> > > I'm hitting this bug with a minimal install Fedora 21 and using
>> > > fedup
>> > > --product=nonproduct
>> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214255
>> > >
>> > >
>> > The only Fedora products, now flavors, are Workstation, Server,
>> > and Cloud.
>>
>>
>> Even the fedup maintainer is unclear about this.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214255#c1
>>
>> In the comment he considers Fedora 21 KDE a product. Yet in the code
>> it's considered nonproduct:
>>
>> "Nonproduct: choose this if none of the above apply; in particular,
>> choose this if you are using an alternate-desktop spin..."
>>
>> And then the fedup FAQ likewise suggests always using --product,
>> including the example.
>>
>> So really it's sounding like --product is required for Fedora <= 20
>> upgrades; and is prohibited for Fedora >= 21 upgrades.
>
> Nonproduct is a product. You have to pass --product=(something) for
> all upgrades from F20 - but one of the (something) values you can pass
> is 'nonproduct'. If you want to upgrade to nonproduct you have to pass
> --product=nonproduct , 'nonproduct' doesn't mean 'you don't have to
> pass --product at all'.

OK I still find it confusing. I hope by shear coincidence this is less
confusing for non-native English speakers.

The man page, and the FAQ should probably state that the --product
flag must be used when upgrading Fedora 20 or older; and must not be
used when upgrading Fedora 21 and newer.


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