On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 12:28 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:54:17PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 13:28 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > What's the fallback option here? Find someone to keep FedUp
> > working
> > for
> > one more release?
>
> I believe there is a dnf upgrade plugin to replace fedup.
Will did that as a proof of concept, but I'm not sure whether that's
meant to be a supportable solution.
It's a much better solution than *current* fedup, but yeah, it's really
just a proof-of-concept.
The concept is that System Upgrades should be done as follows:
1) Prepare an Offline System Update[1], with $releasever=NEW_VERSION
2) Run the offline system update
...which means system upgrades are really just big updates. So it makes
sense that the update tools should handle them, not a special tool
maintained by the installer team.
So, I'm trying to get support for this stuff into DNF itself[2], but if
the DNF team can't/won't support system upgrades, I'd still recommend
dnf-plugin-fedup over the existing fedup.
-w
[1]
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates
[2]
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/281
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