How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

[Jaroslav Reznik]

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> On 09/24/2014 12:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- There has been some discussion in
> > various forums lately about how we will handle fedup upgrades from
> > Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products.
> > 
> > Several suggestions have been made that warrant discussion:
> > 
> > * Upgrades from Fedora 20 remain non-productized. They pick up
> > fedora-release-standard and upgrade only their existing packages. *
> > Upgrades from Fedora 20 become Fedora Workstation systems and have
> > the appropriate environment group installed on them. This
> > mechanism will not remove any existing packages. * Fedup should
> > provide a selection for which Product (or non-productized) version
> > to upgrade to.
> > 
> > I am personally opposed to forcing all upgrades to become Fedora
> > Workstation (even if in general the majority of existing
> > deployments are desktop/laptop machines).
> > 
> > I think either the first option (easy) or the last option
> > (requiring fedup changes) will be preferable. In the selectable
> > case, I think that fedup should operate as a non-productized
> > upgrade unless otherwise specified at the command-line. If we pass
> > --server, --workstation, --cloud, it should upgrade existing
> > packages as well as installing the complete set of the
> > @^fedora-$PRODUCT-environment comps environment group.
> > 
> >> Maybe we can go with first option and say, upgrades to products
> >> are not supported, please reinstall. It's new beginning and say
> >> non-productized update support will be gone in F22 timeframe and
> >> only productized updates will be allowed.
> > 
> 
> Well, that cannot be the case, since it would leave the users of Spins
> completely out in the cold. That's something we've asserted numerous
> times now that we won't do.

Ah, you're right. On the other hand I think all spins are somehow
desktop related (at least now), so moving spins to use workstation
as the base is probably desirable. Actually, it was one of the 
ultimate plans for Workstation.

Jaroslav

> 
> >> In Czech we say "Když se kácí strom, létají třísky" - Google
> >> Translate is your friend :).
> > 
> >> Jaroslav
> > 
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