Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 20:32:14 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 20:17 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 07:39 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2013/1/23 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>:
> >> On 01/23/2013 10:55 PM, drago01 wrote:
> >>> Supporting "none" is not an option.
> >>
> >> Really suddenly not an option.
> >>
> >> We did that for a long time why is that suddenly not an option so please
> >> enlighten me why that's not an option.
> >>
> >> Users are better of keeping /home on a separated partition and re-use it
> >> with an fresh install then those poor attempts to "support" upgrades one way
> >> or another which at this point in time we cant do since the bits for that
> >> aren't properly aligned to make that happen...
> > ? 8-)
> >
> > I really can't imagine it.
> >
> > I use Fedora as a server system for my daily developer work. I use
> > many services with different configurations. Actually updating it with
> > preupgrade/fedup is sometimes hard. Reinstalling whole system after
> > each release will be super painful.
> >
> 
> ?
> 
> Keep your server configuration in git and keep the relevant data on 
> separated partition then reinstall and checkout the config(s)

Why should I do all this when I can simply apt-get upgrade^W^Wyum
upgrade ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York



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