[Rpm-ecosystem] System upgrades in general (was Re: Fedora system upgrades in DNF)

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 12:52:28 UTC 2015


On 27 July 2015 at 19:18, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
> (except DNF doesn't have --offline-update, and PackageKit doesn't have
> --releasever.)

PackageKit used to have a UpgradeSystem() method that took a release
version, I'm sure that could be trivially dug up again.

> But in general, I'm suggesting that *all* package managers should
> support this. System upgrades are just big updates; both should be
> handled by the same tools.

Right, agreed.

Richard.


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