Proposed F19 Feature: PreUpgrade Assistant

[Ryan]

On 01/29/2013 01:05 PM, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 05:57 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com
>> <mailto:jreznik at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     = Features/PreUpgrade Assistant =
>>     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade_Assistant
>>
>>     Feature owner(s): Nils Philippsen <nils at redhat.com
>>     <mailto:nils at redhat.com>>, Phil Knirsch
>>     <pknirsch at redhat.com <mailto:pknirsch at redhat.com>>
>>
>>     The PreUgrade assistant is a tool to help people upgrade from one
>>     release to
>>     another and be sure to track important manual configuration 
>> changes they
>>     performed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't confuse users unnecessarily.  Call this fedup-assistant or
>> something else entirely.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
>>
>
> Yep, thats actually what we have in mind, just need to discuss and 
> coordinate that with Will Woods and the anaconda team. Just wanted to 
> make sure folks know about this planed "extension" of fedup.
>
> Thanks & regards, Phil
>

It appears that some work has already been done on this by wwoods in the 
fedup repo. I have been helping him out a bit with the UI.

https://github.com/wgwoods/fedup

There is a prototype GUI in there that steps the user though process of 
preparing for the upgrade.
Presently the GUI allows the user to choose where to install from 
(Online Repos, Optical Media or USB Media), Shows them the release 
notes, etc.

It is mostly fairly similar in concept to the old preupgrade GUI.

cheers,
ryanlerch