What next?

[Richard June]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:14 am, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 21:20 -0500, Richard June wrote:
> > What would alleviate it more is if one could upgrade Fedora versions via
> > yum easily. I understand that's not always possible, but if you've kept
> > to FC and extras, it would be great for that to be an option
>
> for many cases in the recent past it has been doable, but not
> necessarily supported.
It's always doable if you want to put forth that kind of effort.

> the reality is that the number of things changed in a major way make it
> difficult.
>
> FC1->FC2 was selinux and the kernel version change
> FC2->FC3 was lvm2 and udev
and rh9 to fc1 was this or that. I understand that major stuff has changed 
with every release, but if, as an end user, I could be reasonably sure that I 
could install the latest fedora-release, yum update, reboot, and I have a the 
latest version of fedora, that would be a happy thing

Most likely this will *never* be a supported thing. nobody wants to deal with 
it, but if we could work towards being able to jump from FC(X - 1) to FC(X) 
like that, it would be a nicety even if the requirements are, FC and extras 
only. how difficult would it be to enable selinux or udev on a migration? LVM 
is an install time option only, I understand that. but some things don't 
strike me as being too far outside the realm of reason.
This "reinstall every six months" kinda sucks ya know.