Feature idea: package an installer image as a grub entry before F8.

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Jun 5 19:24:12 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 14:30 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Benjamin Lewis (ben.lewis at benl.co.uk) said: 
> > >> Good point. That's something we'll need to remember if we go forward
> > >> with this. Luckily yum/rpm/etc. can be fetched and used without needing
> > >> to boot into the installer environment.
> > >
> > > *cough* python abi changes *cough*
> >
> > Pull python as well, or is that _too_ simple?
> 
> At that point you're upgrading a sizable portion of your distro before
> you actually start the updater.

Especially if new python is built against new glibc which has new
features.  

Jeremy




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