Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

[drago01]

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> [...]
> * Upgrading every year, with an unreliable upgrade process, is not
> something you have to do with a proper stable OS

I am not sure why you call it unreliable ... I *never* reinstall
unless I really had to (moving one installation from i386 to x86_64).
Otherwise I always upgrade using either anaconda back in the days and
then preupgrade.

There is some weird attitude that "upgrades don't work anyway people
should just reinstall". Not only is a reinstall a lot more work it is
just not something you could ask from a user to do every 6-12 months.

Technically there is no difference between an upgrade and package
updates just the package set is larger, it just makes dealing with
stuff like usrmove easier. If an update from foo-1.0 to foo-2.0 breaks
the whole system it will regardless whether you upgrade from FN-1 to
FN or doing a "yum update" in a rolling release.