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Contingency plans?Contingency plans?Posted Nov 10, 2012 18:09 UTC (Sat) by clump (subscriber, #27801)In reply to: Contingency plans? by hadrons123 Parent article: Fedora 18 now scheduled for January 2013
I couldn't agree with you more. A Fedora install is unnecessarily disruptive, and once the new release is installed a very desirable 'yum update' will pull in lots of packages. Why not skip the six month reinstall phase and simply go rolling? Update Anaconda every so often so it keeps up with the state of the distro, and keep good documentation for dealing with disruptive changes.
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Contingency plans? Posted Nov 11, 2012 22:48 UTC (Sun) by jondkent (guest, #19595) [Link]
Sort of agree too. Not completely sold on rolling, but if they can get fedup working that'll fix my use case as I'm tied of 'install-use-blow away & reinstall' cycle. No real reason for this much anymore.
If the, far too short, 6 month major release could be thrown in the bin and replace with, say, a major once a year, via fedup if you want, and minor release during the year cycle to rebase the build tree, that'll be a step forward.
Re anaconda, I don't fully understand why Red Hat are so worked up about this. I look after lots of rhel servers at work and use kickstart for these. Can't remember the last time I used anaconda to install rhel.
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