It would be nice to have a possibility to use additional repositories during upgrade. I suggest that during upgrade anaconda should use repositories configured and enabled in /etc/yum.repos.d. I think that can help eliminating problems with upgrades on systems where a user has installed packages from Fedora Everything which are not available on an upgrade media. Anaconda's user interface should provide an option to enable or disable usage of additional repositories during upgrade. It could be similar to that available in install mode.
This is something that we're hoping to enable for Fedora 9
One extra note: anaconda doesn't care about special connections. I´m thinking about adsl and pppoe type of internet connections that require user name and password. And text mode pppoe-setup (or adsl-setup) is not available at install stage eighter. It would be nice to have the internet up and running at anaconda stage.
Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's.
Triaged, reading repositories from /etc/yum.repos.d/ seems like something we should be able to hit for F10. @George: Please file a separate bug for this issue, thanks.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163299 ***