On Mon, 25.11.13 09:23, Adam Williamson (awilliam(a)redhat.com) wrote:
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 13:59 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager
Schaller
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> First of all apologize for this taking so long, I ended up traveling
> non-stop for some time visiting some of Red Hats desktop customers.
> While not directly tied to the work of this working group I do hope to
> take some of the lessons learned from those meetings with me into the
> future work of the working group.
>
> Anyway I tried editing the PRD a bit based on the feedback we got on the
> first draft. I tried to make a few items a bit clearer and also to
> include spelling fixes contributed and so on.
>
> We probably want to do another WG meeting soon to discuss next steps.
>
> Feel free to let me know if I forgot to include some important feedback
> or if further clarifications are needed.
"Upgrading the system multiple times through the upgrade process should
give a result that is the same as an original install of Fedora
Workstation."
Based on my experience (>10 years of it, with multiple distributions and
OSes), this is an incredibly ambitious goal. It may in fact be entirely
unachievable as written. I'm not aware of a single operating system in
existence which actually achieves this. Even cellphone manufacturers -
who have a very clearly-defined single piece of hardware to deal with,
and a much smaller set of software and use cases to worry about than we
have - don't achieve this. I'm really not sure it should be front and
centre in a foundational document without some really convincing
evidence that it's even vaguely achievable.
Oh, you can certainly achieve this. You just need to depart from the
holy grail of RPM upgrading and updated the OS as one image, and detach
the apps from the OS instead of considering them part of the OS.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat