Re: PreUpgrade

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 20:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Preupgrade is not in the default package list for the desktop live cd.
> 
> Considering packagekit feature of prompting on new distro releases which 
> in Fedora would depend on preupgrade, shouldn't be included?

Nahh, PackageKit (the yum backend) automatically installs preupgrade the
first time it gets scheduled to do a check for new distro upgrades.

It needs to do such a thing as the preupgrade package holds the data
about what upgrades are available.

Richard.