Per-Product Config file divergence

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 10 17:55:59 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:22:30AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > The default should be whatever product was installed onto the system
> > originally.  Going from Fedora 20 to a Product in F21 is probably a
> > one-off but I'm not sure what that should look like.  I could be
> > totally wrong but I believe that each of the Products will have their
> > own install image.  With that in mind, fedup might need a one-off bit
> > of UI to ask which Product image you want to use.  That image would
> > then set the Product on the disk accordingly.
> Or we could simply say that fedup doesn't upgrade from a non product to
> a product. You have to re-install or use a manual method to do that
> (some yum/dnf commands, etc). 

That makes sense to me (although maybe there should be a special case for
F20 -> Fedora Workstation to make migration easier?).


> We need to consider this case also for someone who installs Fedora, but
> not one of the products (a spin, or a custom kickstart or whatever) who
> then wants to install a product. 

For cloud, the answer is "start with the new image", or else "okay then,
you're on your own". But cloud has a big luxury of being the easy case
in this regard.

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