Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
= Proposed System Wide Change: RpmOstree - Server side composes and
atomic
upgrades =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RpmOstree
Change owner(s): Colin Walters
I don't see the advantage of supporting this primitive "take it or leave it"
approach to installing and updating Fedora at all.
As a user, by using those precomposed images, you lose the ability to :
* customize your installation by adding/removing packages (and if it were
not prevented, the customizations would not persist across updates),
* update individual packages,
* get new updates (including security fixes) as soon as they hit the
mirrors, without waiting for a new OS tree compose (every extra step in
the process unavoidably introduces a delay),
* get individual packages from updates-testing or directly from Koji,
* use packages from third-party repositories, unless they respin the entire
OS tree for you,
* save bandwidth by downloading the packages that changed, or even only the
deltas of the actual change (delta RPMs),
etc.
You gain… nothing!
I don't see what's wrong with "dnf -y update" as an updating mechanism.
As developers, we have to spend our valuable time on making our packages
work with this technically inferior delivery system (see the "/var"
discussion) that has no practical benefit whatsoever over the existing
package-driven system.
Kevin Kofler