Pipe dreams: yum-based anaconda a step towards on-line yum-based upgrades?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:36 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:33:09PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > I suspect the 'interesting' parts are when your yum 'distroupgrade'
> > > > plugin starts doing things that are totally unrelated to package
> > > > management.
> > > I dunno -- "package management" can be a pretty big umbrella. You mean,
> > > like, converting LVM, that sort of thing?
> > Converting LVM, removing references to /dev/psaux from various files, etc.
> 
> So, yeah, "interesting" in the famous chinese curse sense. But given that
> that stuff has to happen somewhere, any particular reason why not here?
> 

it's a live system.

much greater risk of losing data and destroying a running process.

-sv