fedup and distro-sync

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Dec 15 11:38:34 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> On 12/12/2014 01:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > The other path you can take is to try and convince wwoods to have
> > fedup do distro-sync. The bug reports for that are
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892061 and h
> > ttps://github.com/wgwoods/fedup/issues/21 . Given that wwoods filed
> > https://github.com/wgwoods/fedup/issues/21 himself, I'm guessing he'd
> > welcome a patch.
> 
> Apparently redhat-upgrade-tool (which appears to be a fork of fedup) doesn't
> use distro-sync either, despite the fact that there is NO attempt to make
> sure
> package versions in RHEL7 are greater than RHEL6, which leads to total
> carnage:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173713

As described in the bug, they do use preupgrade assistant for it. For
Fedora, there's proposed change to include preupgrade assistant in 
Fedora too. Though I'm not sure if Fedora content will cover it too.

Jaroslav

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