[PATCH] Move captive portal to fedora-release-workstation

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Wed Oct 1 23:48:32 UTC 2014




On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 19:26 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Matthew Miller  wrote:
> 
>  
> >That really seems like a great time to reinstall. What benefit would
> there
> be in upgrading?
> 
> 
> I can only speculate but if I say install the KDE spin and want to try
> out Fedora Workstation, should I reinstall? I would prefer not to.
> 
> 


That's *definitely* not an upgrade use-case. That's better solved by
just running 'yum swap fedora-release-standard
fedora-release-workstation && yum install
"@^fedora-workstation-environment"'



> 
>         
>         But, if you really, really want to do it, the straightforward
>         answer would
>         be to convert it Workstation and _then_ upgrade. I don't think
>         switching
>         between products at upgrade time is anything we want to
>         support, is it? It
>         seems like an unrelated thing.
>         
> 
> 
> Perhaps it is but if that isn't going to be supported, it should be
> documented as part of the upgrade story for users moving from Fedora
> 20 or earlier.  Some of the questions that needs to answered include
> 


Please see the thread I started on devel@ which addresses these
questions.


> 
> *)  Can I continue to upgrade Fedora 20 without moving to using one of
> the products?
> 


At the moment, that's the only upgrade path we're likely to be able to
manage.


> *)  Can I move between products? 


Yes, but it will require manual steps. Installing the *packages* from
another environment is fairly easy.



> *)  Can I move from non productized installations to one of the
> products and vice versa?  
> 


Same answer as the previous question.


> *)  How do I differentiate between what is part of the product and
> what is not and what is the effect on upgrades?
> 


I'm not sure what you mean here. From the upgrade tools' perspectives, a
package is a package.



> 
> I intend to add notes to the "Upgrading" page in the wiki.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Rahul 
> 
> 
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