Fedora Live Update SIG Announced

Izhar Firdaus Follow Support Oct 21, 2007 · 1 min read

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At last, a SIG that will be working on supporting Live upgrades on Fedora.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/LiveUpgrade

Announcement @ Fedora-Devel-List

A toolbox suggestion for testers

- a qemu image with a fully updated Fedora release N
- a local mirror of rawhide of Fedora N + 1


while is_testing_period:
      make_a_copy_of_the_qemu_image()
      yum_liveupgrade_to_Fedora_N_+_1()
      report_or_fix_bugs()
      sleep(1day)
      resync_rawhide_mirror()

:P

looking forward for this in F9

Written by Izhar Firdaus Follow Support

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