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

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 21:44 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 15:32 -0500, seth vidal a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:28 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Matthew Miller (mattdm mattdm org) said: 
> > > > Thoughts, anyone?
> > > 
> > > I suspect the 'interesting' parts are when your yum 'distroupgrade'
> > > plugin starts doing things that are totally unrelated to package
> > > management.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > The problem isn't packages, not really, it's all the crazy stuff about
> > relabeling lvm partitions or  migrating major portions of
> > infrastructure.
> 
> Couldn't these bits be moved to a firstboot-like package ?
> 

it's still a live system. Doing that on a live system is scary.

-sv