Henry Jen wrote: ... > Hi Dave, > > Very nice work. > Thank you.
> I am interested in knowing the progress of the other "Packaging and > Patching strategy" you mentioned, and wondering where to participate in > that discussion. > I'm hopeful that the person leading that effort will provide some status and thoughts and opportunities for participation soon. So stay tuned. He got started a lot later than I did, so it's probably going to lag a bit in definition. > For upgrade, we need to be able to do components/packages upgrade as > well as system upgrade. What I am talking about is pretty much like the > difference between a upgrade and a dist-upgrade in apt. > > For example, I want to upgrade from gnome 2.10 to 2.14 and capable to > rollback if things don't work out. I guess this maybe covered in > software management as well, but wonder if feature like LU can be > applied for such upgrade or not. > That's what I think I was getting at with requirement #29, though I guess I haven't carried it through into the discussion in chapter 4. My first stab is that it would, as you suggest, be part of the Software Management functionality. But I'm open to suggestions. Dave
