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? -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
