Pipe dreams: yum-based anaconda a step towards on-line yum-based upgrades?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Wed Nov 30 20:42:40 UTC 2005
seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said:
> > 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.
In fact, that's one of the things that makes an anaconda upgrade easier -
it's always running a kernel vintage similar to what you're going to
end up with on upgrade.
Bill
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