fedup and distro-sync

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/15/2014 04:38 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- 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

I have no idea how the issue up not updating a package to the version in the
new release (and thus missing deps in binaries) would be solved in preupgrade
assistant.  And that is also noted now in the bug.

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