> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:39 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: >> 2008/10/20 Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 10:04 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: >> >> After yum upgrading my way to F10 from F9, the experience as already >> >> reported was pretty painless. The only problem is that some packages, >> >> key to Fedora 10 features, do not get picked up with the update. e.g. >> >> readahead, and grub doesn't seem to have been updated either. >> >> >> >> A few questions: >> >> >> >> * Would the same problem occur if I'd used preupgrade? >> > >> > The bootloader gets reinstalled on upgrade (via preupgrade or just a >> > usual anaconda upgrade). New packages, though, don't get pulled in >> > because it's too hard to tell _which_ new packages someone might want. >> > And even more the case with something like readahead which existed in >> > the past. >> >> I'm not particularly knowledgable about this, so it's a bit of a shot >> in the dark but... >> >> Would it be possible to reference some kind of package manifest that >> defines the default package set of a release from preupgrade? It could >> then compare the currently installed packages to that list, >> upgrade/reinstall packages that are on both lists, and install >> packages that are only on the new package manifest? >> >> There's probably a million reasons why that's a bad idea, but I'd be >> interested to hear a couple of them at least... > > Package splits, package renames, going between multiple releases to name > a few. The single biggest objective behind an upgrade is "move to newer > version of stuff, try to disrupt as little as possible". Ideally, proper rpm Provides/Obsoletes and EVR maintainance will allow yum to do this. In my experience from RH-9 to the present, it generally works. > Jeremy > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
