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

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 15:53 -0500, seth vidal a écrit :
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 21:49 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 15:38 -0500, seth vidal a écrit :
> > > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:36 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:33:09PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > > > > I suspect the 'interesting' parts are when your yum 'distroupgrade'
> > > > > > > plugin starts doing things that are totally unrelated to package
> > > > > > > management.
> > > > > > I dunno -- "package management" can be a pretty big umbrella. You mean,
> > > > > > like, converting LVM, that sort of thing?
> > > > > Converting LVM, removing references to /dev/psaux from various files, etc.
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > So what ?
> > Make a firstboot package which runs at init 1
> 
> I believe we have that
> 
> it's called anaconda

Nah
Anaconda requires you to get an installation image somewhere and burn it
to a CD/DVD. A firstboot package would just add an entry to the usual
boot menu, and work even on a CD-less system. Plus a firstboot could be
split into "manage partitions" "manage lvms" ... tools, while anaconda
only knows about update process.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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