On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:

If you're going to do
that you may as well make it also do the upgrade 'offline', as fedup
does. But that's really about all fedup does: it really just boots to a
special systemd target and does 'yum upgrade', when you boil it down,
and allows us to hook in other operations in dracut if we need to.

I thought it was running rpm as opposed to yum? In any case, one of the ideas floated was fedup to always upgrade itself and fedora-release from the current repository as the first step before upgrading anything else. up2date used to update itself in Red Hat Linux so this is not a new idea but could solve some of the issues

Rahul