[packagekit] Detecting DISTRO upgrades

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 30 13:16:55 PDT 2007


Richard Hughes wrote:
> Scenario:
>
> User is using Fedora 7. Fedora 8 is released that day. The user is
> prompted if they want to upgrade to the new version.
>
> Questions:
>
> * Do we deal with next-boot integration such like anaconda?
> * Do we do pre-download or just install a new $(distro)-release file
> * How do we know when the new distro is released? Metadata or RSS?
>
> Ideas welcome.
>
> Richard.
>
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade

Tim




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