On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 19:26 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Matthew Miller  wrote:
 
>That really seems like a great time to reinstall. What benefit would there
be in upgrading?


I can only speculate but if I say install the KDE spin and want to try out Fedora Workstation, should I reinstall? I would prefer not to.



That's *definitely* not an upgrade use-case. That's better solved by just running 'yum swap fedora-release-standard fedora-release-workstation && yum install "@^fedora-workstation-environment"'



But, if you really, really want to do it, the straightforward answer would
be to convert it Workstation and _then_ upgrade. I don't think switching
between products at upgrade time is anything we want to support, is it? It
seems like an unrelated thing.


Perhaps it is but if that isn't going to be supported, it should be documented as part of the upgrade story for users moving from Fedora 20 or earlier.  Some of the questions that needs to answered include


Please see the thread I started on devel@ which addresses these questions.


*)  Can I continue to upgrade Fedora 20 without moving to using one of the products?


At the moment, that's the only upgrade path we're likely to be able to manage.


*)  Can I move between products?

Yes, but it will require manual steps. Installing the *packages* from another environment is fairly easy.


*)  Can I move from non productized installations to one of the products and vice versa? 


Same answer as the previous question.


*)  How do I differentiate between what is part of the product and what is not and what is the effect on upgrades?


I'm not sure what you mean here. From the upgrade tools' perspectives, a package is a package.



I intend to add notes to the "Upgrading" page in the wiki.





Rahul

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