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

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Wed Nov 30 21:32:37 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 22:13 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> > it's called anaconda
> 
> Nah
> Anaconda requires you to get an installation image somewhere and burn it
> to a CD/DVD. A firstboot package would just add an entry to the usual
> boot menu, and work even on a CD-less system. Plus a firstboot could be
> split into "manage partitions" "manage lvms" ... tools, while anaconda
> only knows about update process.

That's called a "rescue" image.

So what you're saying is you'd like either anaconda to also be a rescue
image, or the rescue image to also do upgrades.

The former, quite a few people have been doing just fine for years.  The
latter is silly -- if we made the rescue image do upgrades, it'd be
duplicating large chunks of anaconda, and then it'd be painful to use as
an actual rescue image.

Now, certainly it'd be better of some parts of anaconda were separate
tools, but that's a separate discussion.
-- 
  Peter




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