Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 18:35:14 UTC 2013


Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) said: 
> I'll wait your patches for the kernel to allow seamless upgrades of the
> kernel without reboots.

Sure, just have a ksplice server that generates splices for each new kernel
build relative to the previous one, and your upgrade process downloads all of
the series of splices and applies them. Voila!

The ksplice series from 2.6.18 to 3.7 will be loads of fun.

Bill

(NOTE: THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS IDEA.)


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