Bug 502703

Summary:	RFE: option to make an upgrade close to a fresh installation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	preupgrade	Assignee:	Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2009-05-26 21:33:49 EDT

Description of problem:

Not sure if this should be filed against Anaconda or preupgrade but here is what I would like. When I am doing an upgrade from a previous release, I am currently missing out a lot of new functionality introduced by packages where are newly made default in the latest release. If there was a option to make it close a fresh installation by filling in the gaps but not deleting the configuration that I have already in the previous release, that would be awesome. 

Apparently Ubuntu has something similar

http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2009/05/26/trial-by-fire-distro-upgrade/

I imagine this can work by diff'ing the comps files for both versions for the groups I have installed and offering me the ability to install those packages.