Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-08-14)

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:

> Am 15.08.2013 15:40, schrieb Paul Wouters:
>> We can't tell people to re-install from scratch every 6 months.
>> What we need is an "apt-get dist-upgrade" equivalent.
>
> *we have*
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum
>
> i currently count 450 dist-upgrade this way and the oldest
> setups are upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 18 - the only
> stupid is that instead spend more effort in the yum-upgrades
> waste all the time with preupgrade/fedup and whatever the
> next inkarnation is known

I had tried preupgrade/fedup in the past, but it tried to stuff
too many files in /boot because my root partition was encrypted,
so this method was never usable for me. The wiki mentions that
files now go into  /var/lib/fedora-upgrade  (which btw should really
be /var/cache/fedora-upgrade) which is only available after asking
for my disk encryption password.

I'll try it for f18->f19, and if this got fixed that is a big step
towards running fedora longterm across releases.

Paul