Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
Stephen Gallagher (sgall...@redhat.com) said: > Rehashing the conversation elsewhere, the problem with DIY and similar > is that it doesn't make much sense in the context of Spins, which are > non-productized but not particularly do-it-yourself. While they're not DIY in the context of the initial

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-06 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 12:46 -0400, Mike Pinkerton wrote: > On 3 Oct 2014, at 19:37, Ray Strode wrote: > > > I'm not sure it's worth repainting the bikeshed at this point, but > > during the alluded-to discussion a few alternative names came up that > > would have been better than fedora-release

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > I tried the upgrade during weekend. And I tried to simulate this requires > during upgrade. > The problem is that once you get fedora-release-standard, you will get > other *-standard (e.g. > firewalld-config-standard) and there is no wa

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-06 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 10/03/2014 10:57 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: To that end, fedup will grow a new mandatory option: --product. It will take one of four arguments: "standard" (non-productized), "server", "workstation" or cloud. For those rebels who use fedora-upgrade(8): this script now ask you right after di

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-06 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 10/01/2014 10:28 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Fedora officially only supports upgrades from a*fully-upgraded Fedora* to the next version, so we could work around this by adding a temporary explicit Requires: fedora-release-standard on the F20 fedora-release package, thereby forcing all upgrade

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-04 Thread Mike Pinkerton
On 3 Oct 2014, at 19:37, Ray Strode wrote: I'm not sure it's worth repainting the bikeshed at this point, but during the alluded-to discussion a few alternative names came up that would have been better than fedora-release-standard: 1) fedora-release-nonstandard 2) fedora-release-custom 3) fed

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 11:56:41AM +0200, drago01 wrote: > >> I agree with Rahul that "standard" is not a great name for the > >> nonstandard, non-productized upgrade, though. "Generic" is more > >> descriptive anyway. > > But vanilla is the most delicious. > But has no meaning that context for pre

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.10.2014 um 18:08 schrieb Jaroslav Nahorny: Am 03.10.2014 um 23:57 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: "generic" is technical speak or for "normal" people outside IT at best has a negative context to "generica" and spam I never heared a

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-04 Thread Jaroslav Nahorny
Reindl Harald writes: > Am 03.10.2014 um 23:57 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> "generic" is technical speak or for "normal" people outside IT at best >> has a negative context to "generica" and spam I never heared about „generica” an

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 19:37 -0400, Ray Strode wrote: > I'm not sure it's worth repainting the bikeshed at this point, but > during the alluded-to discussion a few alternative names came up that > would have been better than fedora-release-standard: > > 1) fedora-release-nonstandard That this was

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-04 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 10/03/2014 07:37 PM, Ray Strode wrote: Hi, I agree with Rahul that "standard" is not a great name for the nonstandard, non-productized upgrade, though. "Generic" is more descriptive anyway. I'm not sure it's worth repainting the bikeshed at this point, but during the alluded-to discussion a

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-04 Thread drago01
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 06:18:11PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> I agree with Rahul that "standard" is not a great name for the >> nonstandard, non-productized upgrade, though. "Generic" is more >> descriptive anyway. > > But vanilla is

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Ray Strode
Hi, > I agree with Rahul that "standard" is not a great name for the > nonstandard, non-productized upgrade, though. "Generic" is more > descriptive anyway. I'm not sure it's worth repainting the bikeshed at this point, but during the alluded-to discussion a few alternative names came up that woul

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 06:18:11PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > I agree with Rahul that "standard" is not a great name for the > nonstandard, non-productized upgrade, though. "Generic" is more > descriptive anyway. But vanilla is the most delicious. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 17:06 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > standard: choose this if none of the above apply; in particular > choose >this if you are using an alternate-desktop spin of Fedora I'd add a comma right after "in particular." > Feedback from this wide audience appreciated. Would you k

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > and *because* non productized variants are continued there should > be no emphasis instead *equal options* > Fedora as a project has already discussed that extensively and decided otherwise. We are not really revisiting that discussion

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.10.2014 um 00:29 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > "generic drugs" is the one thing nobody wants to have in context honestly > > Not true but irrelevant anyway since I was just pointing out that generic is > not a technical term. >

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > "generic drugs" is the one thing nobody wants to have in context honestly > Not true but irrelevant anyway since I was just pointing out that generic is not a technical term. why would you try to force somebody to a "prodcut setup" >

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.10.2014 um 23:57 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > "generic" is technical speak or for "normal" people outside IT at best > has a negative context to "generica" and spam > > > It is not really technical. Generic is often used in ot

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > "generic" is technical speak or for "normal" people outside IT at best > has a negative context to "generica" and spam It is not really technical. Generic is often used in other contexts by "normal" people: Ex: Generic drugs which mea

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.10.2014 um 23:12 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > To that end, fedup will grow a new mandatory option: --product. It will > take one of four arguments: "standard" (non-productized), "server", > "workstation" or cloud. > > Wh

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > To that end, fedup will grow a new mandatory option: --product. It will > take one of four arguments: "standard" (non-productized), "server", > "workstation" or cloud. > When the discussion about the "standard" name came up earlier i

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 16:57 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > To that end, fedup will grow a new mandatory option: --product. It will > take one of four arguments: "standard" (non-productized), "server", > "workstation" or cloud. I volunteered to come up with the text if you dont' specify --produc

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 16:28 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 12:16 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we > > will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. > > > > Several suggestio

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 12:37 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 04:28:22PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > The thing to note is that in all scenarios, the user *MUST* fully update > > their F20 system first, or the results will be undefined and could be > > unpleasant. We nee

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 04:28:22PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > The thing to note is that in all scenarios, the user *MUST* fully update > their F20 system first, or the results will be undefined and could be > unpleasant. We need to spell this out very clearly to our upgrading > users. Here'

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-02 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 15:33 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > On 09/24/2014 06:16 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > * Upgrades from Fedora 20 remain non-productized. They pick up > > fedora-release-standard and upgrade only their existing packages. > > Can you please explain to me, what is the di

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-02 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 09/24/2014 06:16 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: * Upgrades from Fedora 20 remain non-productized. They pick up fedora-release-standard and upgrade only their existing packages. Can you please explain to me, what is the difference between non-productized Fedora and productized Fedora? Do I

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-10-01 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 12:16 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we > will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. > > Several suggestions have been made that warrant discussion: > > 1) Upgrades from Fedora 20

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 2014-09-24, 16:22 GMT, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > In Czech we say "Když se kácí strom, létají třísky" I have to admit I have hard time with this proverb. Whenever I hear somebody to use it is usually to cover for his mistakes or worse (it was a favorite proverb of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Petr Hracek wrote: > Preupgrade assistant performs assessment of the system from the > "upgradeability" point of view. > It is based on OpenSCAP engine. > It reports potential risks for in-place upgrading system. > fedup can call our API. For sure. > Was th

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Petr Hracek
Preupgrade assistant performs assessment of the system from the "upgradeability" point of view. It is based on OpenSCAP engine. It reports potential risks for in-place upgrading system. fedup can call our API. For sure. That's all. On 09/30/2014 03:59 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Tue, Sep

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Petr Hracek wrote: In RHEL we are using preupgrade-assistant [1] which does this work. > If user write a check script then it will inform user that upgrade is not > supported. > The check script can also inform user that e.g. mariadb changed structure > and it'

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Petr Hracek
Or better say, fedup remains as tool for upgrades. On 09/30/2014 03:57 PM, Petr Hracek wrote: No, definitely not. preupgrade-assistant is only the tool which informs user or admin what was change against the newest version and recommend actions for inplace upgrades. But as I mentioned. Curren

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Petr Hracek wrote: > > No, definitely not. > > preupgrade-assistant is only the tool which informs user or admin > what was change against the newest version and recommend actions for > inplace upgrades. > But as I mentioned. Currently now it's not available i

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Petr Hracek
No, definitely not. preupgrade-assistant is only the tool which informs user or admin what was change against the newest version and recommend actions for inplace upgrades. But as I mentioned. Currently now it's not available in Fedora. Preupgrade-assistant doesn't modify system at all. On 0

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Haïkel
2014-09-30 15:04 GMT+02:00 Petr Hracek : > > In RHEL we are using preupgrade-assistant [1] which does this work. > If user write a check script then it will inform user that upgrade is not > supported. > The check script can also inform user that e.g. mariadb changed structure > and it's required t

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-30 Thread Petr Hracek
On 09/24/2014 06:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: - Original Message - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. Several suggestions have been made tha

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:14:40 -0400 Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:27:04 -0400 > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:16:06PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > I think either the first option (easy) or the last option > > > (requiring fedup changes) will be pref

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:27:04 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:16:06PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > I think either the first option (easy) or the last option (requiring > > fedup changes) will be preferable. In the selectable case, I think > > that fedup should opera

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 September 2014 10:16, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we > will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. > > Several suggestions have been made that warrant di

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread drago01
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > - Original Message - >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we >> will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. >> >> Several su

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.09.2014 um 19:12 schrieb Dennis Gilmore: > I have updated a few machines by running "yum --releasever=21 install > fedora-release" then "yum distro-sync" and not had any issues. As I > understand this thread it is soley about what to do in the case of > using fedup only. in which case we nee

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:29:11 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 24.09.2014 um 18:16 schrieb Stephen Gallagher: > > There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we > > will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 product

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 09/24/2014 11:28 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: Fourth option might be to make all installations that have gnome-shell installed become Workstation, and leave others non-productized. This is hardly a guarantee. I have several servers that get a default Fedora install and I don't bother removing X

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > Hi > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > > Ah, you're right. On the other hand I think all spins are somehow > desktop related (at least now), so moving spins to use workstation > as the base is probably desirable > > No. It is not. Work

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > Ah, you're right. On the other hand I think all spins are somehow > desktop related (at least now), so moving spins to use workstation > as the base is probably desirable > No. It is not. Workstation is GNOME based. Most spins are f

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/24/2014 12:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > - Original Message - There has been some discussion in > > various forums lately about how we will handle fedup upgrades from > > Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 pro

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.09.2014 um 18:22 schrieb Jaroslav Reznik: >> Maybe we can go with first option and say, upgrades to products are not >> supported, please reinstall. It's new beginning and say non-productized >> update support will be gone in F22 timeframe and only productized updates >> will be allowed don

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.09.2014 um 18:16 schrieb Stephen Gallagher: > There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we > will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. > > Several suggestions have been made that warrant discussion: > > * Upgrades from Fedora 20 remain non-pr

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Kalev Lember
On 09/24/2014 06:16 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we > will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. > > Several suggestions have been made that warrant discus

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:16:06PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > I think either the first option (easy) or the last option (requiring > fedup changes) will be preferable. In the selectable case, I think > that fedup should operate as a non-productized upgrade unless > otherwise specified at the

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/2014 12:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > - Original Message - There has been some discussion in > various forums lately about how we will handle fedup upgrades from > Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. > > Several suggestions have been m

Re: How to handle upgrades to Fedora 21

2014-09-24 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > There has been some discussion in various forums lately about how we > will handle fedup upgrades from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 products. > > Several suggestions have been made that warrant discussion: > > * Upgrad