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

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:38:34PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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.

Excepting the specific special cases like LVM migration (which, y'know,
we're past already), is it significantly more risky than when yum does any
package updates? 

I'm working on a fresh install of FC3 on another test system, and when
that's done, there's something like a gigabyte of updates in
core/updates/3/i386 to apply via yum -- not much better than my FC4->FC5
update.

Presumably, there's bigger version jumps in various RPMs, but if there's
packaging problems, those'll show up online or off.

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