Re: update mechanism for new releases

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 11:05 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:

> The
> problem with preupgrade is that it needs user interaction and a lot of
> space. It downloads the distro update locally, reboots the machine and
> then runs anaconda.

Well, as yum doesn't group transactions, yum upgrades also require a lot
of space (enough to store the entire set of upgrade packages, as they're
_all_ downloaded prior to the operation).
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