Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 01/29/2013 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Well, the other thing fedup does - and the other reason it's necessary
> compared to a simple online yum upgrade - is provide a mechanism for
> pretty much any package to hook in pretty much any action to be
> performed as part of the upgrade. To be sure of what's going to happen
> during a given fedup transaction, you should also check what scripts are
> going to get fired as part of the upgrade. In F18 I'm not sure there are
> any, but this is the kind of mechanism we would use, fr'instance, to
> switch the default bootloader as part of an upgrade in future, if we
> decided we wanted to do that again. The kind of stuff that can't be done
> in %pre/%post etc.

Is this documented somewhere? I would like to read more about this feature.

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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Systems Management Engineering