Am Do, den 29.04.2004 schrieb Jeremy Katz um 17:12:
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 14:22 +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> This is probably a stupid question, but anyway...
Maybe, but with ~3 releases/year and a short "lifetime" of fedora every
update cost a lot of time (especially if you have a lot of machines...).
I really would like it if it would be possible to update while you can
still work with the system.
[...]
> Are there operations which need to be done on an unmounted
filesystem ? If
> yes, they could be done by a "very-first-start" program after
anaconda's
> work, or even something loaded in RAM.
There are some operations that require newer libraries and newer
kernels, etc. eg, there are a few things now that are 2.6 specific and
count on the fact that you're running a 2.6 kernel so that you can be
correctly set up to run the 2.6 kernel post-upgrade. Having to do those
from within 2.4 is extremely difficult. And you need to use newer
rpmlib for some features which then depends on new glibc which depends
on ..., etc
Then my stupid question: How hard would it be to update these core
packages with on short boot from cd/dvd (~5 min) and install/update all
the other packages at the next start parallel to a normal (or
restricted) login session?
CU
thl