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

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

seth vidal (skvidal 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