why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jan 3 21:31:49 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 01:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Pup should notify users when the release they are using reaches end of 
> life as well as availability of new releases and the live upgrade tool 
> should be hooked into pup. For the next release, we might maintain it as 
> a experimental feature and stabilize this as we have move forward. There 
> are some cases where a live upgrade wont work efficiently but for 
> majority of use cases the only reason live upgrades dont work properly 
> are real packaging problems which we should be fixing anyway.

Sadly, this isn't actually the case.  The number of "weird" cases that
are just "remove this package" is far smaller than the other bizarre
bits that have caused live upgrades to not work reliably.

Jeremy




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