Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?
Simon Andrews
simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Thu Jun 25 08:07:36 UTC 2009
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Simon Andrews wrote:
>> I don't see the problem with forcing the use of these packages during an
>> upgrade regardless of what versions were on the original system. You'd
>> be left with a functional system
>
> Not really. Things like KDE config files processed by kconf_update, Firefox
> profiles, Amarok databases etc. will have been converted to the format
> expected by the new version, downgrading is not supported by upstream and
> the old version may thus not work or lose some settings.
Surely these aren't the kind of updates which should be applied within a
release cycle anyway? A new release is the time you'd expect to get a
major revision of this sort.
>> So, just to be clear here. Anyone who either has no network connection
>> or whose network connection is too slow to support downloading
>> potentially hundreds of megs up updates isn't going to be able to
>> upgrade any more?
>
> Fedora effectively requires a fast network connection for the regular
> updates anyway.
Really? I've installed Fedora for several people who don't have a
decent network connection and have taken updates on a USB stick at
intervals. I'm sure there's plenty of the world where install disks are
passed round.
Even where you do have a fast network connection there can still be
problems:
1) All of our servers have to access the internet via a proxy. At least
within the Anaconda UI there doesn't appear to be any support for
configuring proxies so I'm forced into kickstart / shells / extra boot
options to upgrade?
2) At home I have a cap on how much I can download except for an
unlimited window overnight (midnight - 6am I think). Do I now have to
wait up to upgrade my machines rather than doing the initial upgrade
from media and then picking up updates automatically the next night?
Making a media based upgrade unsupported is going to be a pain for an
awful lot of people.
Simon.
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list