Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro > wrote: >> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: >>> Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first >>> reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 June 2015 at 06:37, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Will Woods wrote: >> On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 07:41 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: >>> Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us >>> from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not >>

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-08 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 29.5.2015 v 13:38 Petr Hracek napsal(a): > Please have a look on Feature proposed in Fedora 19. > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraUpgrade > It should be redesigned maybe. Package already exists in Fedora. > > What do you think about it? It is still there. Just not marked as Feat

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-08 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Will Woods wrote: > On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 07:41 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: >> Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us >> from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not >> live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice that we ca

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-07 Thread Will Woods
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 07:41 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us > from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not > live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice that we can do upgrades online, > but what about when the system w

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-07 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us > from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not > live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice that we can do upgrades online, > but what about when the system we

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-07 Thread Neal Gompa
Uhh, this might be a stupid question, but what actually prevents us from integrating the FedUp process into install media (that is, not live images)? I mean, yeah, it's nice that we can do upgrades online, but what about when the system we need to upgrade doesn't necessarily have online access? I'd

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-03 Thread Richard Hughes
On 3 June 2015 at 11:55, Petr Hracek wrote: > Does it mean that using systemd Offline Updates there will not be a "Zero" > downtime feature. > Except rebooting because of kernel upgrade? Well, we'll certainly be using offline updates to do the actual transaction. > Will there be any possibility

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-06-03 Thread Petr Hracek
On 05/28/2015 05:42 PM, Will Woods wrote: [tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades work (and how th

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 29 May 2015 at 13:04, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:55:55PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >Why does no one know? Keeping track of this kind of thing is exactly >> >what computers are good for >> because when each and every application sjips it's own libraries >> it's a mes

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > Right, so... let's make the package managers keep the mess clean _even > in this case_. > Well, I don't know if I would use the term "mess" - but snappy would be a paradigm shift. That in and of itself isn't necessarily a bad thing; but

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 02:50:05PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:40:07PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > cool, and now we went the windows road > > * security update of library X > > * nobody knows which applications are still vulnerable > > Why does no one know? Keepin

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:55:55PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >Why does no one know? Keeping track of this kind of thing is exactly > >what computers are good for > because when each and every application sjips it's own libraries > it's a mess - that's exactly what package managers are for - if

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.05.2015 um 20:50 schrieb Matthew Miller: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:40:07PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: cool, and now we went the windows road * security update of library X * nobody knows which applications are still vulnerable Why does no one know? Keeping track of this kind of thing

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:40:07PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > cool, and now we went the windows road > * security update of library X > * nobody knows which applications are still vulnerable Why does no one know? Keeping track of this kind of thing is exactly what computers are good for. --

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.05.2015 um 20:10 schrieb Michael Catanzaro: On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:39 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I'm failing to connect the dots here... snappy is a different packaging paradigm with some advantages and disadvantages; but how exactly does it ensure that distributed packages are newer?

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > The point is that you can update to the newest versions of applications > as they are released upstream, without having to worry about whether there > could be incompatibilities with system > libraries. > Well, someone still has to cre

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:39 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > I'm failing to connect the dots here... snappy is a different > packaging paradigm with some advantages > and disadvantages; but how exactly does it ensure that distributed > packages are newer? Isn't that > a function of the packager?

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.05.2015 um 18:39 schrieb Gerald B. Cox: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Michael Catanzaro mailto:mcatanz...@gnome.org>> wrote: ...our primary competitor is doing it in the near future... ...we cannot head towards a future where all of our applications are older than what Ubun

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > ...our primary competitor is doing it in the near future... > ...we cannot head towards a future where all of our applications are older > than what Ubuntu is shipping... > I'm failing to connect the dots here... snappy is a different p

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 17:11 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Good luck with that vision. I would buy into it a bit more if this > wasn't the same chestnut dragged out every couple of releases to > somehow motivate us to accept whatever big OS change is being pushed. > It has become the "Cry Wol

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-29 Thread Petr Hracek
On 05/28/2015 05:42 PM, Will Woods wrote: [tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades work (and how th

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.05.2015 um 01:11 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: On 28 May 2015 at 16:42, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 15:05 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: With timed: you don't get the newest thing, but switching to the new stuff is more on your schedule. You can ignore the new release for

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > ...we can stop branding our releases with a > version number...we still have the six-month cycle, but > this is hidden to users...this is the model Windows is moving to... > As Josh alluded, I'm not exactly clear on the value of keepin

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 28 May 2015 at 16:42, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 15:05 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> With timed: you don't get the newest thing, but switching to the new >> stuff is more on your schedule. You can ignore the new release for a >> while and still get bugfixes/security updates

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 15:05 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > With timed: you don't get the newest thing, but switching to the new > stuff is more on your schedule. You can ignore the new release for a > while and still get bugfixes/security updates until you are ready to > do > the upgrade. I should a

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 28 May 2015 17:32:24 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:05:03PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > In some kind of ideal world it would be great if rawhide was the > > rolling release and people who liked that model could use it day to > > day. (Which is really already th

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:05:03PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > In some kind of ideal world it would be great if rawhide was the > rolling release and people who liked that model could use it day to > day. (Which is really already the case, but things do break so you need > to be good at troubleshoo

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 28 May 2015 14:58:03 -0500 Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first > > reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of > > course, but could result in a majo

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:08:23PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > about how to provided some kind of API/ABI at the platform level that > developers can depend on. Your goal is nice, but we are nowhere near > the point of actually doing what you just said. Also, the release cycle is a reliable engine

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.05.2015 um 22:12 schrieb Josh Boyer: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: when i hear "offline update" i have enough at all frankly what people really need is relieable and fast *online updates* and not taking the esay road "well go offline" and that works pretty well o

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 28.05.2015 um 21:58 schrieb Michael Catanzaro: >> >> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: >>> >>> Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first >>> reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 05/28/2015 03:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I think we're already at the point where -- at least for Fedora Workstation (not sure about Server/Cloud), and except for infrastructure issues -- we can stop branding our releases with a version number, and simply have a particularly big offline u

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: >> Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first >> reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, >> but could result in a major offli

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.05.2015 um 21:58 schrieb Michael Catanzaro: On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, but could result in a major offline upgrade, inst

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first > reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, > but could result in a major offline upgrade, instead of an entire > new distribution. I thin

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 05/28/2015 02:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 28.05.2015 um 20:39 schrieb Przemek Klosowski: Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, but could result in a major offline upgrade, instead of an ent

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.05.2015 um 20:39 schrieb Przemek Klosowski: On 05/28/2015 11:42 AM, Will Woods wrote: Here's how it should work: 1) Download packages for the new system 2) Use the systemd Offline Updates[2] facility to install packages This is really simple - simple enough that it should probably be

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 05/28/2015 11:42 AM, Will Woods wrote: Here's how it should work: 1) Download packages for the new system 2) Use the systemd Offline Updates[2] facility to install packages This is really simple - simple enough that it should probably be provided by the system packaging tools themselves. A

Re: fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Christian Schaller
5 11:42:56 AM Subject: fedup for F23 and beyond [tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades wor

fedup for F23 and beyond

2015-05-28 Thread Will Woods
[tl;dr: fedup is going away and should be re-implemented by the system packaging tools.] Hey all, F22 is the fifth release we've handled with fedup. A lot has changed since F17, and we've learned some valuable lessons about how upgrades work (and how they fail). We've come to the conclusion that