On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:26 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
So, I noticed while doing my first FC5t1 install the upgrades
aren't
currently supported in the reworked anaconda. Fair enough; there's a lot of
changes under the hood. But that got me thinking: hey, maybe this is a great
time to get it so that "yum upgrade" can actually easily bring one from one
FC release to the next. (More realistically, maybe FC6 is a great time. But
now might be a time to start thinking about it.)
I know there's historically been a lot of wacky special-casing in Anaconda,
much of it legacy cruft, and much of it kinda important for, y'know,
actually working upgrades.
Unfortunately, a lot of it depends on having the new kernel (or other
new part of the system) already running and so is hard or impossible to
do on a running system. Think about things like the static dev -> udev
transition.
[snip]
But overall, seemed like a pretty successful experiment. And, given
the
super-short lifespan of FC releases, something I'd really be interested in
having as an option.
For some releases, it could work. As a general case based on lots of
years of making upgrades work, not a chance in hell.
Jeremy