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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/15/2013 05:32 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 15.08.2013 17:17, schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
>> On 08/15/2013 04:36 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
>>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>
>> And yet another issue is the fedora-distribution occasionally carrying packages
>> with greater NEVRs in older releases than in newer release.
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> what does *not* matter in case of "yum distro-sync"
It does matter, esp in case of the kernel, because the kernel is treated 
differently from most other packages in yum.

Another case it matters is case when package versions are identical.
In these cases, even though the NEVRS may be identical, the contents can 
be different (different paths, different deps etc.)

Ralf