On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, William Hooper wrote:
Benjamin J. Weiss said:
>> This idea falls apart pretty quickly depending on what is being
>> upgraded.
>> Looking at the devel list, for example, Python is going to be upgraded
>> in
>> FC2. Yum is based on Python, and Yum needed recompiled for the new
>> version. Now with an Anaconda based install who cares. You aren't
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[snip]
>
> So, if I am reading you correctly, Fedora Core users are going to have one
> of four options from now on:
[snip]
Umm... how about:
5) Put the CD in and do an upgrade.
Maybe I didn't make clear enought that the problem is trying to upgrade
tools/libraries that the upgrade program is trying to use. When doing and
Anaconda based install (upgrade), the installer is using it's own
environment, not the environment of the installed system.
Given the track record with redhat of how often upgrades go wrong, and
the fact that such an upgrade requires more downtime, I think a lot of
people will worry about that.
Is fedora there to provide a good distro to users, or to exploit users
to redhat's commercial benefit?
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Sam Barnett-Cormack
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