Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason?

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 June 2015 at 06:37, Neal Gompa ngomp...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Will Woods wwo...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 07:41 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us from integrating the FedUp process into

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-08 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 29.5.2015 v 13:38 Petr Hracek napsal(a): Please have a look on Feature proposed in Fedora 19. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraUpgrade It should be redesigned maybe. Package already exists in Fedora. What do you think about it? It is still there. Just not marked as Feature,

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-08 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Will Woods wwo...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 07:41 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-07 Thread Will Woods
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 07:41 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice that we can do upgrades online, but what about when the system we

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-07 Thread Neal Gompa
Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice that we can do upgrades online, but what about when the system we need to upgrade doesn't necessarily have online access?

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-07 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Neal Gompa ngomp...@gmail.com wrote: Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice that we can do upgrades online, but what about when

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-03 Thread Petr Hracek
On 05/28/2015 05:42 PM, Will Woods wrote: [tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades work (and how

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-03 Thread Richard Hughes
On 3 June 2015 at 11:55, Petr Hracek phra...@redhat.com wrote: Does it mean that using systemd Offline Updates there will not be a Zero downtime feature. Except rebooting because of kernel upgrade? Well, we'll certainly be using offline updates to do the actual transaction. Will there be any

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Petr Hracek
On 05/28/2015 05:42 PM, Will Woods wrote: [tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades work (and how

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 17:11 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Good luck with that vision. I would buy into it a bit more if this wasn't the same chestnut dragged out every couple of releases to somehow motivate us to accept whatever big OS change is being pushed. It has become the Cry Wolf

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: ...our primary competitor is doing it in the near future... ...we cannot head towards a future where all of our applications are older than what Ubuntu is shipping... I'm failing to connect the dots here... snappy

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.05.2015 um 18:39 schrieb Gerald B. Cox: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org mailto:mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: ...our primary competitor is doing it in the near future... ...we cannot head towards a future where all of our applications are

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: The point is that you can update to the newest versions of applications as they are released upstream, without having to worry about whether there could be incompatibilities with system libraries. Well, someone

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.05.2015 um 20:10 schrieb Michael Catanzaro: On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:39 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I'm failing to connect the dots here... snappy is a different packaging paradigm with some advantages and disadvantages; but how exactly does it ensure that distributed packages are newer?

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:40:07PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: cool, and now we went the windows road * security update of library X * nobody knows which applications are still vulnerable Why does no one know? Keeping track of this kind of thing is exactly what computers are good for. --

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.05.2015 um 20:50 schrieb Matthew Miller: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:40:07PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: cool, and now we went the windows road * security update of library X * nobody knows which applications are still vulnerable Why does no one know? Keeping track of this kind of

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Right, so... let's make the package managers keep the mess clean _even in this case_. Well, I don't know if I would use the term mess - but snappy would be a paradigm shift. That in and of itself isn't

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 02:50:05PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:40:07PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: cool, and now we went the windows road * security update of library X * nobody knows which applications are still vulnerable Why does no one know? Keeping track

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:55:55PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Why does no one know? Keeping track of this kind of thing is exactly what computers are good for because when each and every application sjips it's own libraries it's a mess - that's exactly what package managers are for - if i

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 29 May 2015 at 13:04, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:55:55PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Why does no one know? Keeping track of this kind of thing is exactly what computers are good for because when each and every application sjips it's own

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:39 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I'm failing to connect the dots here... snappy is a different packaging paradigm with some advantages and disadvantages; but how exactly does it ensure that distributed packages are newer? Isn't that a function of the packager? The

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 15:05 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: With timed: you don't get the newest thing, but switching to the new stuff is more on your schedule. You can ignore the new release for a while and still get bugfixes/security updates until you are ready to do the upgrade. I should add

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 28 May 2015 at 16:42, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 15:05 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: With timed: you don't get the newest thing, but switching to the new stuff is more on your schedule. You can ignore the new release for a while and still get

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, but could result in

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:08:23PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: about how to provided some kind of API/ABI at the platform level that developers can depend on. Your goal is nice, but we are nowhere near the point of actually doing what you just said. Also, the release cycle is a reliable engine

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 28 May 2015 14:58:03 -0500 Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, but could

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 28 May 2015 17:32:24 -0400 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:05:03PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: In some kind of ideal world it would be great if rawhide was the rolling release and people who liked that model could use it day to day. (Which is

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 05/28/2015 03:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I think we're already at the point where -- at least for Fedora Workstation (not sure about Server/Cloud), and except for infrastructure issues -- we can stop branding our releases with a version number, and simply have a particularly big offline

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 28.05.2015 um 21:58 schrieb Michael Catanzaro: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason? The 6-month workflow cadence

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.05.2015 um 22:12 schrieb Josh Boyer: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: when i hear offline update i have enough at all frankly what people really need is relieable and fast *online updates* and not taking the esay road well go offline and that works pretty well over

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.05.2015 um 21:58 schrieb Michael Catanzaro: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, but could result in a major offline upgrade,

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:05:03PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: In some kind of ideal world it would be great if rawhide was the rolling release and people who liked that model could use it day to day. (Which is really already the case, but things do break so you need to be good at

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, but could result in a major offline upgrade, instead of an entire new distribution. I think

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 05/28/2015 11:42 AM, Will Woods wrote: Here's how it should work: 1) Download packages for the new system 2) Use the systemd Offline Updates[2] facility to install packages This is really simple - simple enough that it should probably be provided by the system packaging tools themselves.

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 05/28/2015 02:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 28.05.2015 um 20:39 schrieb Przemek Klosowski: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, but could result in a major offline upgrade, instead of an

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.05.2015 um 20:39 schrieb Przemek Klosowski: On 05/28/2015 11:42 AM, Will Woods wrote: Here's how it should work: 1) Download packages for the new system 2) Use the systemd Offline Updates[2] facility to install packages This is really simple - simple enough that it should probably be

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: ...we can stop branding our releases with a version number...we still have the six-month cycle, but this is hidden to users...this is the model Windows is moving to... As Josh alluded, I'm not exactly clear on

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.05.2015 um 01:11 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: On 28 May 2015 at 16:42, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 15:05 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: With timed: you don't get the newest thing, but switching to the new stuff is more on your schedule. You can

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Christian Schaller
, 2015 11:42:56 AM Subject: fedup for F23 and beyond [tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades work

fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Will Woods
[tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades work (and how they fail). We've come to the conclusion