Re: 4.4 -> 5.0 upgrade (considerations)

Rodrigo Barbosa spake the following on 4/17/2007 12:00 PM:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:55:24PM -0600, Stephen John
Smoogen wrote:
>> On 4/17/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigobdarkover.org> wrote:
>>> I'm working on a formula to enable a clean
upgrade from 4.4 to 5.0.
>>> Unfortunately, not only we have a big glibc
upgrade on our way, we
>>> also have some nasty package fragmentation. The
best exemple
>>> is xorg-x11-libs, which was separated in
several (10+, perhaps)
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> So far, I think the best plan is to create meta
packages to solve
>>> this dependency hell. Lets call it
meta-4.4to5.0-upgrade.noarch.rpm.
>>> This package should provide and requires the
needed components.
>>>
>>> Unfortunatelly, this will probably change from
system to system,
>>> which can become very nasty. In that case, we
have two ways to procede:
>>>
>>> 1) A script that will create a package specific
for that given
>>>   system
>>> 2) Several meta packages
>>>
>>> I'm kind of leaning toward the second option,
with a super meta
>>> package that will require them all (in case
someone want to
>>> make things simples at the cost of installing
extra packages).
>>>
>>> Comments ? Suggestions ?
>> Are you looking for something otehr than anaconda
for small memory or
>> something? I do not see live updates working for
the faint of heart
>> from 4.4 -> 5.0 .
> 
> Nah, mostly remote systems, hosted on datacenters or
somewhere else.
> 
> So far, the main problem I've encontered is really
xorg. Go figure.
> 
> []s
> 
You can do remote anaconda installs using vnc. I have done
it once or twice.
Now if you could do remote ssh based text installs, that
would really rock!
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Scott Silva wrote:
> Rodrigo Barbosa spake the following on 4/17/2007 12:00
PM:
>   
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:55:24PM -0600, Stephen
John Smoogen wrote:
>>     
>>> On 4/17/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigobdarkover.org> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm working on a formula to enable a clean
upgrade from 4.4 to 5.0.
>>>> Unfortunately, not only we have a big glibc
upgrade on our way, we
>>>> also have some nasty package fragmentation.
The best exemple
>>>> is xorg-x11-libs, which was separated in
several (10+, perhaps)
>>>> packages.
>>>>
>>>> So far, I think the best plan is to create
meta packages to solve
>>>> this dependency hell. Lets call it
meta-4.4to5.0-upgrade.noarch.rpm.
>>>> This package should provide and requires
the needed components.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunatelly, this will probably change
from system to system,
>>>> which can become very nasty. In that case,
we have two ways to procede:
>>>>
>>>> 1) A script that will create a package
specific for that given
>>>>   system
>>>> 2) Several meta packages
>>>>
>>>> I'm kind of leaning toward the second
option, with a super meta
>>>> package that will require them all (in case
someone want to
>>>> make things simples at the cost of
installing extra packages).
>>>>
>>>> Comments ? Suggestions ?
>>>>         
>>> Are you looking for something otehr than
anaconda for small memory or
>>> something? I do not see live updates working
for the faint of heart
>>> from 4.4 -> 5.0 .
>>>       
>> Nah, mostly remote systems, hosted on datacenters
or somewhere else.
>>
>> So far, the main problem I've encontered is really
xorg. Go figure.
>>
>> []s
>>
>>     
> You can do remote anaconda installs using vnc. I have
done it once or twice.
> Now if you could do remote ssh based text installs,
that would really rock!
>   
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