Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 05:42 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:46:24PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> > We are all grown up enough to decide for our own, just give the
> > information and let the admin take care of that.
> 
> Well, that's the problem. Most of our users (including many of the 
> professional sysadmins) are *not* able to make a fully informed choice 
> about whether an online upgrade will ensure that they're no longer 
> running any code with known security issues. That's not a criticism of 
> them - it's just a much harder problem than almost everyone realises.
> 
> Nobody's suggesting making it impossible to use yum, but blessing it as 
> a first-class distribution upgrade mechanism is a bad idea. There's far 
> too many corner cases, and we can't justify the effort it'd take to fix 
> all of them.

Nonsense, for a distribution upgrade you just recommend the admin to
reboot the system when done.
Everybody expects to reboot after a big distro-sync anyway as there is a
new kernel and basically new-everything.

But I said my points, I won't argue anymore.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York