How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 24 September 2014 10:16, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:

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> 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.
>
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* No upgrades from 20 to 21 are supported. This makes 21 a relative "1" and
we are working from then on about upgrades working.

[I am not for this idea but realized it was an option not presented and
someone might think it is a good one to be on the table.]


> 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 agree with this.


> 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.
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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