Dan Williams wrote:
But it's not clear to me why you'd want to upgrade from a
LiveCD rather
than just boot into your already-installed image and do a 'yum upgrade'.
There's _nothing_ that a LiveCD-based install process would consist of
other than a 'yum upgrade', except that you're running off the livecd.
I guess there is a 'seamless' aspect to this, such that you can use the
same CD for both the update payload (the new .repo files) and test the
hardware in the same bootup. I'm not sure if the small benefit of doing
everything in the same boot outweighs the disadvantage of complicating
the CD with update logic which could just as easily be done in the real
system, since both LiveCD and real system would end up running 'yum
upgrade' anyway.
Yum upgrading from Core to Core is not recommended without using Anaconda.
This among other things not apparent to most users of this list at this
time, is my major
reasoning for asking why not use Anaconda.
An upgrade from LiveCD with Anaconda is seemless.
I don't have to make sense of it however. I just know what does make sense.
J. Hartline