Bug 469348

Summary:	Release Upgrade Tool
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	G. Michael Carter <mikey>
Component:	PackageKit	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	lmacken, rhughes, richard, robin.norwood, tuxbrewr
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Description G. Michael Carter 2008-10-31 13:27:32 UTC

This is a feature request:

Last night I was exposed to the ubuntu's upgrade system.   Their software update tool allows them to also upgrade releases.  We went from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10 (which is like going Fedora 9 to 10.) in just with a few clicks.


Fedora is RPM based, so why couldn't we use yum to do a network upgrade from 9 to 10?

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2008-11-04 13:32:17 UTC

It's this exactly what preupgrade does?

Comment 2 G. Michael Carter 2008-11-04 14:04:38 UTC

Sorry didn't realized that program existed.  Must have missed that.

I guess my enhancement request now is to have a button on "PackageKit Update Applet" to call the preupgrade.   Have it so the button only shows with specified criteria.  ie when there is a new stable release of Fedora.

That way the "average user" who has their Fedora pre-installed, could easily upgrade without too much hassle.

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2008-11-04 14:18:30 UTC

There is: http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-distro-upgrade-notify.png

All I need to do is push a new version of PackageKit to F9-updates-testing and then it'll show up as soon as F10 is released. Of course, I want to test this before I get 500,000 bugs on the release day for F10.

Expect a new enough PackageKit soon after the GA of F10 to be pushed into F9.