importance of upgradeability

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi,
> It seems to work fine now, and I like to have recent NVIDIA drivers.  I
> don't mind upgrading twice a year when it works, and it might have the
> advantage that per each upgrade, not as many changes are introduced as
> when upgrading less frequently.
Until Fedora comes with a more radical change (like when it moved from 
Gnome 2 to Gnome 3) I guess we can be confident fedup will work.

>> Upgrades from the network take a long time. It would help if we could
>> point to a local DVD install media and use the updates repo at the same
>> time, so fedup don't take so long downloading packages.
> One way or another, you need to download, which takes a while.  Then all
> the packages need to be upgraded, and that also takes a while.  While
> you run fedup to prepare for the upgrade, you can do other things just
> as if you were downloading a DVD image.
Yes, I like the fact fedup only locks the machine after the necessary 
reboot.

My ideas make sense only for repeating the processes on multiple 
machines. If I could download all packages / and store then in a DVD 
media or a shared disk beforehand, it would save time for the second 
machine and so. Like we can do today with the install media, but 
expanded for Fedora updates and third-party repos.

Imagine if fedup worked using yum "keep cache" and then setup a http or 
nfs share for other machines to reuse all downloaded content. Then other 
machines wouldn't need to download / install anything to their local HDs 
before rebooting (except for the new grub, kernel and a few binaries 
kile yum), they would upgrade directly from the first one.


[]s, Fernando Lozano