Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 18:11 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> 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.

https://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fedup-a-little-background/ ... kinda. That's the best that I know of.
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