From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Galeon/1.3.21 Description of problem: It would be great to see an rpm package which would upgrade a computer, and then be uninstalled afterward by anaconda. It would be installed through yum install update-bootloader, say, and would install both a boot image in /boot or some other appropriate location, and would place an appropriate boot entry in the grub menu. Upon reboot, you would have the option to do an network upgrade over ftp, nfs, etc. Again, post install the package would be automatically removed. Upgrades can currently be performed by putting a boot image on disk and editing yum by hand... providing a package to do the same should be relatively straightfoward (Famous last words, I know. :) and very helpful. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.. 2. 3. Additional info:
The problem is that this can't be done, eg, on FC3 for the upgrade to FC4 and it's entirely possible that a package built for FC4 won't work with FC3
Sorry, I don't get why it won't work... why would you need to install an FC4 package under FC3? The idea would be, once FC5, say, becomes available, push an FC4 package to the FC4 mirrors which only contains a boot image for the FC5 installer. Package installation installs the appropriate grub menu entry, too. Upon booting using that menu entry, an FC5 network boot proceeds as usual. It has worked previously by hand... is there some problem I don't get which precludes the packaging?