Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: oh even if people like i did some hundret dist-upgrades over the years it was us told that linux has to go the windows way: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates Yeah, this is a really insane feature! Let me assure you that this feature is only

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-09 Thread drago01
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Reindl Harald wrote: oh even if people like i did some hundret dist-upgrades over the years it was us told that linux has to go the windows way: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates Yeah, this

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.02.2013 15:52, schrieb drago01: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Reindl Harald wrote: oh even if people like i did some hundret dist-upgrades over the years it was us told that linux has to go the windows way:

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.02.2013 18:35, schrieb Miroslav Suchý: On 01/25/2013 12:12 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: So, you can ignore all of that, but then you have to think about what you actually accomplished by your upgrade? You updated a couple of libraries, and maybe managed to restart a few processes

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 08:54 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote: On 02/04/2013 10:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: https://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fedup-a-little-background/ ... kinda. That's the best that I know of. It lacks in details how I can put hook in upgrade.pre and

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-04 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 01/29/2013 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, the other thing fedup does - and the other reason it's necessary compared to a simple online yum upgrade - is provide a mechanism for pretty much any package to hook in pretty much any action to be performed as part of the upgrade. To be sure

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-04 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 01/25/2013 12:12 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: So, you can ignore all of that, but then you have to think about what you actually accomplished by your upgrade? You updated a couple of libraries, and maybe managed to restart a few processes using them, but for the rest of them the vulnerable

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Lets pretend I'm still running Fedora 16 and every day I do yum-upgrade and not rebooted from day zero. I have exactly the same problem as during yum upgrade to next Fedora release. So we are ignoring this behaviour in middle of

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 18:11 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote: On 01/29/2013 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, the other thing fedup does - and the other reason it's necessary compared to a simple online yum upgrade - is provide a mechanism for pretty much any package to hook in pretty much

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-04 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 02/04/2013 10:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: https://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fedup-a-little-background/ ... kinda. That's the best that I know of. It lacks in details how I can put hook in upgrade.pre and upgrade.post. What is the best practise here? It would be nice if you

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: Note that this doesn't fix problems caused by dropped packages, that block other packages from being updated. That's a problem for all upgrade methods, they might leave your system with broken dependencies instead of erroring out, but in the end the problem is always

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Lennart Poettering wrote: The thing is that doing on-line updates only works for stuff you can restart, and that doesn't mind that things are not atomically updated. However, much (most?) of our code isn't like that. Anybody who tried to update the Firefox RPM while it is running knows that

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Lennart Poettering wrote: Ah, so you have to reboot anyway, so where is the difference between your approach and proper offline updates then? Either way you have to interrupt your work to reboot the machine. One just takes a slight bit longer for rebooting... That yum is tested every day and

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/FedoraUpgrade = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraUpgrade Feature owner(s): Miroslav Suchý msu...@redhat.com Upgrade Fedora to next version using yum upgrade. I agree this should be officially supported, but: I propose to have FedUp and

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: And the major issue with yum upgrades is that online upgrades can fail not only based on what you have installed but also what is currently running and it cannot handle stuff like usermove without user intervention. 1. That's a problem with UsrMove, not with yum! 2. UsrMove CAN

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: I doubt that you can install all packages without hitting conflicts. That just shows again how Conflicts are evil and how we're way too tolerant about them. There should be NO conflicting packages in the official repositories. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Users are better of keeping /home on a separated partition and re-use it with an fresh install then those poor attempts to support upgrades one way or another which at this point in time we cant do since the bits for that aren't properly aligned to make that

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-28 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, If a fedup upgrade can go offline for a lengthy, but uncertain, amount of time, then the lack of feedback is worrying. You can't hold your breath for 25 minutes, you don't know when to conclude that you have a serious problem that will require help from the data center staff, and you

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 14:01 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, If a fedup upgrade can go offline for a lengthy, but uncertain, amount of time, then the lack of feedback is worrying. You can't hold your breath for 25 minutes, you don't know when to conclude that you have a serious

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Pinkerton
On 26 Jan 2013, at 15:28, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 26 janvier 2013 à 15:20 -0500, Mike Pinkerton a écrit : On 26 Jan 2013, at 13:09, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 26, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Mike Pinkerton pseli...@mindspring.com wrote: If you could SSH into fedup during its offline

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 26 janvier 2013 à 06:21 +, Matthew Garrett a écrit : On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 02:16:29AM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: Well, slightly bit longer is around 2 to 3h vs 2 to 3 minutes. And I already did version upgrade taking 6 to 8h due to slow internet or slow hard drives,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 24, 2013, at 10:42 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Well, that's the problem. Most of our users (including many of the professional sysadmins) are *not* able to make a fully informed choice about whether an online upgrade will ensure that they're no longer running

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 25, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: William Brown writes: In the future, hopefully once btrfs is a bit more mature, perhaps it could be considered to make a new writable snapshot subvolume of the system, and the use yum prefix to update the new

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Mike Pinkerton
On 26 Jan 2013, at 12:11, Chris Murphy wrote: After 1/2 dozen fedup upgrades during testing, on average the downtime portion of the upgrade was between 25 and 40 minutes. On a five year old laptop, with 4GB of RAM, and WDC Scorpio Blue rust drive (the new computer with SSD did the fedup

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 26, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Mike Pinkerton pseli...@mindspring.com wrote: If a fedup upgrade can go offline for a lengthy, but uncertain, amount of time, then the lack of feedback is worrying. You can't hold your breath for 25 minutes, you don't know when to conclude that you have a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 26.01.2013 19:09, schrieb Chris Murphy: I just don't see how it's best practices to be doing updates on live processes. This seems sorta like a game to find out just how much one can cheat the upgrade process

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.01.2013 18:00, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Ven 25 janvier 2013 00:12, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Applications have deps on all kinds of data in /usr/lib, not just shared libraries. Such as locale data, icons, fonts, artwork, documentation. BTW Firefox seems to be the only

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.01.2013 19:20, schrieb Lennart Poettering: Nonsense, for a distribution upgrade you just recommend the admin to reboot the system when done. Everybody expects to reboot after a big distro-sync anyway as there is a new kernel and basically new-everything. Ah, so you have to reboot

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.01.2013 21:17, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 01/25/2013 07:39 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: I use Fedora as a server system for my daily developer work. I use many services with different configurations. Actually updating it with preupgrade/fedup is sometimes hard. Reinstalling

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Mike Pinkerton
On 26 Jan 2013, at 13:09, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 26, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Mike Pinkerton pseli...@mindspring.com wrote: If a fedup upgrade can go offline for a lengthy, but uncertain, amount of time, then the lack of feedback is worrying. You can't hold your breath for 25 minutes,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 26 janvier 2013 à 15:20 -0500, Mike Pinkerton a écrit : On 26 Jan 2013, at 13:09, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 26, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Mike Pinkerton pseli...@mindspring.com wrote: If you could SSH into fedup during its offline period and get real time feedback about what

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Pavel Alexeev
25.01.2013 22:27, Lennart Poettering пишет: On Fri, 25.01.13 13:02, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) wrote: On 01/24/2013 06:12 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: If you restart any of those you bring down the entire machine basically, or bring down at least the bits you really want

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 05:42 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:46:24PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: We are all grown up enough to decide for our own, just give the information and let the admin take care of that. Well, that's the problem. Most of our users (including

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Björn Persson
Chris Adams wrote: The way some other Unix OSes I've used worked for version upgrades was to require the admin drop to single-user mode first, optionally with network access. RHL/RHEL/Fedora have never had a single-user with network mode, but that would be nice to have. Then maybe yum

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.01.2013 05:46, schrieb Simo Sorce: That said I think trying a distro-sync from a graphical session is just a funny and instructive experience, I wouldn't recommend it as you'll keep the pieces when your session blows up and brings with it your yum upgrade, but it is certainly

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Ven 25 janvier 2013 00:12, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Applications have deps on all kinds of data in /usr/lib, not just shared libraries. Such as locale data, icons, fonts, artwork, documentation. BTW Firefox seems to be the only application that goes bonkers when fonts are updated

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 01/24/2013 06:12 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: If you restart any of those you bring down the entire machine basically, or bring down at least the bits you really want to avoid, i.e. the user's sessions... Then all code that runs that is not a system service is difficult to restart from a

Re: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread kaperang07
On 01/24/2013 06:12 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: If you restart any of those you bring down the entire machine basically, or bring down at least the bits you really want to avoid, i.e. the user's sessions... Then all code that runs that is not a system service is difficult to restart

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 25.01.13 08:58, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 05:42 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:46:24PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: We are all grown up enough to decide for our own, just give the information and let the admin take care of

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 25.01.13 13:02, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) wrote: On 01/24/2013 06:12 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: If you restart any of those you bring down the entire machine basically, or bring down at least the bits you really want to avoid, i.e. the user's sessions...

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: I'll wait your patches for the kernel to allow seamless upgrades of the kernel without reboots. Sure, just have a ksplice server that generates splices for each new kernel build relative to the previous one, and your upgrade process downloads all

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Przemek Klosowski
My point is that it'd be nice to improve the upgrades. I love upgrades---I love the shiny new toys and I hate them for the disruption they always bring, at someone else's schedule. As you say, there are good reasons why it's what it is now, and maybe you're right that it can't be significantly

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:20 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 25.01.13 08:58, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 05:42 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:46:24PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: We are all grown up enough to decide for

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 14:22:44 -0500, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: My point is that it'd be nice to improve the upgrades. I love upgrades---I love the shiny new toys and I hate them for the disruption they always bring, at someone else's schedule. As you say, there

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi, 2013/1/23 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 01/23/2013 10:55 PM, drago01 wrote: Supporting none is not an option. Really suddenly not an option. We did that for a long time why is that suddenly not an option so please enlighten me why that's not an option. Users are

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/25/2013 07:39 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, 2013/1/23 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 01/23/2013 10:55 PM, drago01 wrote: Supporting none is not an option. Really suddenly not an option. We did that for a long time why is that suddenly not an option so please

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 20:17 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/25/2013 07:39 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, 2013/1/23 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 01/23/2013 10:55 PM, drago01 wrote: Supporting none is not an option. Really suddenly not an option. We did

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/25/2013 08:32 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 20:17 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/25/2013 07:39 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, 2013/1/23 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 01/23/2013 10:55 PM, drago01 wrote: Supporting none is not an option. Really

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com writes: [...] B) I will *not* trust an update system that cuts me out of my remote server and make me *hope* it will come up later. If yum freaks out for *whatever* reason I want to be there with an emergency shell open [...] I've been saved more than once by a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 03:51:14PM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com writes: [...] B) I will *not* trust an update system that cuts me out of my remote server and make me *hope* it will come up later. If yum freaks out for *whatever* reason I want to be there with

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Mike Pinkerton
On 25 Jan 2013, at 14:23, Simo Sorce wrote: Ah, so you have to reboot anyway, so where is the difference between your approach and proper offline updates then? Either way you have to interrupt your work to reboot the machine. One just takes a slight bit longer for rebooting... A) One

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 21:57 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 03:51:14PM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com writes: [...] B) I will *not* trust an update system that cuts me out of my remote server and make me *hope* it will come up later. If

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 25 janvier 2013 à 19:20 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Ah, so you have to reboot anyway, so where is the difference between your approach and proper offline updates then? Either way you have to interrupt your work to reboot the machine. One just takes a slight bit longer for

Re: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread William Brown
Ah, so you have to reboot anyway, so where is the difference between your approach and proper offline updates then? Either way you have to interrupt your work to reboot the machine. One just takes a slight bit longer for

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
William Brown writes: In the future, hopefully once btrfs is a bit more mature, perhaps it could be considered to make a new writable snapshot subvolume of the system, and the use yum prefix to update the new subvolume. When you reboot, the new subvolume can become the new root. a) Currently

Re: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, William Brown will...@firstyear.id.au said: In the future, hopefully once btrfs is a bit more mature, perhaps it could be considered to make a new writable snapshot subvolume of the system, and the use yum prefix to update the new subvolume. When you reboot, the new subvolume

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 02:16:29AM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: Well, slightly bit longer is around 2 to 3h vs 2 to 3 minutes. And I already did version upgrade taking 6 to 8h due to slow internet or slow hard drives, that's IMHO a pretty significant downtime. fedup does all network activity

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread drago01
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/23/2013 10:55 PM, drago01 wrote: Supporting none is not an option. Really suddenly not an option. We did that for a long time why is that suddenly not an option so please enlighten me why that's not an

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:14:28PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: (As a side note, I would like to avoid describing fedup as 'officially supported' and describe it instead as 'officially recommended' - it's an important semantic difference, I think.) Because we don't officially support

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com said: Several knowledgeable developers have asserted that - while it often happens to work out okay - online upgrading is an inherently dangerous operation, I don't see that the limited amount of validation QA is able to offer can possibly

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 01/23/2013 07:50 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: The thing is that doing on-line updates only works for stuff you can restart, and that doesn't mind that things are not atomically updated. However, much (most?) of our code isn't like that. Anybody who What could not be restarted? And what we

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miroslav Suchý (msu...@redhat.com) said: On 01/23/2013 07:50 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: The thing is that doing on-line updates only works for stuff you can restart, and that doesn't mind that things are not atomically updated. However, much (most?) of our code isn't like that. Anybody who

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 23.01.13 22:17, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 19:47 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 22:47:18 +, \Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\ johan...@gmail.com wrote: b) We QA have alot of QA community members testing this so this

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread drago01
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Wed, 23.01.13 22:17, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 19:47 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 22:47:18 +, \Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 January 2013 10:25, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Lennart Poettering Wouldn't it make sense to test the full install? I doubt that you can install all packages without hitting conflicts. You can not. Lots of things conflict so if you try to do a 'yum

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 24.01.13 15:28, Miroslav Suchý (msu...@redhat.com) wrote: On 01/23/2013 07:50 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: The thing is that doing on-line updates only works for stuff you can restart, and that doesn't mind that things are not atomically updated. However, much (most?) of our code

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 08:56 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:14:28PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: (As a side note, I would like to avoid describing fedup as 'officially supported' and describe it instead as 'officially recommended' - it's an important semantic

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 18:11 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 23.01.13 22:17, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 19:47 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 22:47:18 +, \Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\ johan...@gmail.com wrote: b)

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 00:12 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: I mean, here's an example: let's say openssl is updated, which is pulled in by a ton of other things, for example the libc NSS LDAP module. The libc NSS is used by at least half of all processes running on your system, and they all

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 24.01.13 21:15, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 00:12 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: I mean, here's an example: let's say openssl is updated, which is pulled in by a ton of other things, for example the libc NSS LDAP module. The libc NSS is used by at

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 04:46 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 24.01.13 21:15, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 00:12 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: I mean, here's an example: let's say openssl is updated, which is pulled in by a ton of other things,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:46:24PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: We are all grown up enough to decide for our own, just give the information and let the admin take care of that. Well, that's the problem. Most of our users (including many of the professional sysadmins) are *not* able to make a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 23.01.13 18:04, Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) wrote: FedUp is in fact yum-upgrade as well, but in dracut environment (aka off-line upgrade). Some devels say that offline upgrade is only way. But on-line upgrade is possible. E.g in Debian world it is even prefered method. In

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Wed, 23.01.13 18:04, Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) wrote: FedUp is in fact yum-upgrade as well, but in dracut environment (aka off-line upgrade). Some devels say that offline upgrade is only way. But

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/FedoraUpgrade = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraUpgrade Feature owner(s): Miroslav Suchý msu...@redhat.com Upgrade Fedora to next version using yum upgrade. I see no reason to make this an

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
If this method will be tested by FedoraQA, then I believe this upgrade method can be safely recommended to user. The feature owners of this need to do the testing and prodding, not QA. The way this feature is written, it seems to imply that QA is supposed to implement this feature. Note

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 23 janvier 2013 à 19:50 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : On Wed, 23.01.13 18:04, Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) wrote: FedUp is in fact yum-upgrade as well, but in dracut environment (aka off-line upgrade). Some devels say that offline upgrade is only way. But

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/23/2013 07:29 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jaroslav Reznikjrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/FedoraUpgrade = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraUpgrade Feature owner(s): Miroslav Suchýmsu...@redhat.com Upgrade Fedora to next version using yum

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread drago01
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: So I say let's support both or non et all.. Supporting none is not an option. And the major issue with yum upgrades is that online upgrades can fail not only based on what you have installed but also what is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/23/2013 10:55 PM, drago01 wrote: Supporting none is not an option. Really suddenly not an option. We did that for a long time why is that suddenly not an option so please enlighten me why that's not an option. Users are better of keeping /home on a separated partition and re-use it

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 22:47:18 +, \Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\ johan...@gmail.com wrote: b) We QA have alot of QA community members testing this so this does NOT require any additional effort or cause additional LOAD on the QA community. Aren't they just testing an upgrade of the default

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:57:59PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Users are better of keeping /home on a separated partition and re-use it with an fresh install then those poor attempts to support upgrades one way or another which at this point in time we cant do since the bits for that

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 18:04 +, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: If this method will be tested by FedoraQA, then I believe this upgrade method can be safely recommended to user. On a practical level, this is not a good thing to rely on. It is impossible for QA to cover the entire set of possible

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 19:47 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 22:47:18 +, \Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\ johan...@gmail.com wrote: b) We QA have alot of QA community members testing this so this does NOT require any additional effort or cause additional LOAD on the QA