Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 01/25/2013 08:32 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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 ?

You do whatever floats your boat I prefer doing fresh installs and keep 
relevant data on their own partitions and configuration files in git you 
prefer to do it via yum or fedupgrade.

JBG