/usrmove? -> about the future

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 02/10/2012 05:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> yum upgrade is not supported (due dumb pilicies away from real life)

With my QA hat on I can say with confidence that this will never be 
officially supported.

There is no way in hell that QA can test every possible upgrade path 
with every combination of package we ship in the distribution.

I'm frankly amazed that the anaconda/pre-upgrade path got officially 
supported in the first place and at the same time a bit curious how that 
came to be because I'm pretty sure officially supporting that was not 
officially voted upon in the QA community.

Users might finally get a proper fall back solution with btrfs ( via 
snapshot ) for upgrades" but that's about as far as it goes with 
"upgrading support" I would say.

Users should really view upgrading as more as yes you can but you still 
have to fix any brokenness that might result from that upgrade.

Start blocking features or newer project releases that might be 
incompatible to their previous configuration file format for that set 
project is just madness as well as requiring them to be "upgrade 
compatible".

Just my 0.02 cents...

JBG