Why FC-2?

[Neil Derraugh (UW)]

Is there a way to upgrade without getting new ISO images?

John McBride wrote:

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> Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 12:49, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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>>> I'm not entirely clear why it is necessary to have a new distribution.
>>> There doesn't seem anything very revolutionary in it,
>>> so why not just go on upgrading FC-1?
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>> Nothing revolutionary?? What about kernel 2.6? SELinux? The latest
>> versions from KDE and Gnome? Official XFS support ? just to name a few
>> of the changes...
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> I think his point is "why FC-2" when all of this could just be done 
> via a normal yum upgrade, which is an interesting question.
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> I'd say the best reason for occasional full FC releases is to minimize 
> the need for a massive yum update after an install.
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> For example downloading three ISOs to install a system, then 
> downloading a GB of RPMs to upgrade it (essentially overwriting the 
> base install) would be kind of ridiculous.
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> This doesn't even go into the problem of forcing developers to deal 
> with the possibility of users upgrading from extremely old package 
> sets, if you stretch the timeline out far enough. Potentially you 
> could get into situations where you would have to reboot into various 
> levels of update sets, to get the next update set, ad nauseum. That 
> could get ugly.
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> John
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