Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Sat Jan 26 05:33:11 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, William Brown <william at firstyear.id.au> said:
> In the future, hopefully once btrfs is a bit more mature, perhaps it
> could be considered to make a new writable snapshot subvolume of the
> system, and the use yum prefix to update the new subvolume. When you
> reboot, the new subvolume can become the new root. 

Even that won't help when there are kernel updates that move kernel
filesystems around (like some things have moved from their own top-level
mountpoints to under /sys).
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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