/usrmove? -> about the future

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 07:56:28PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:

> and Preupgrade is guaranteed to work?
> laughable!

Not guaranteed, but it works within a massively more constrained 
environment and so certain fundamental issues don't apply. yum 
distro-sync requires that all currently running applications are able to 
deal with their files being replaced. Preupgrade doesn't. That's a 
pretty obvious distinction, and it's why preupgrade is supportable in a 
way that yum isn't.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org