[Server-devel] xs-config packaging

[Martin Langhoff]

(Got server-devel back on CC - hope that's ok)

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I was thinking about the renaming of the wired eth0, eth1 with udev, I'm
> thinking that would make aux/pri_config harder to do. Depending on the
> server's role the name of eth0 won't reflect what its use really is. Lets
> leave that one as is for now.

Agreed.

> How do you intend to preform upgrades in the field?
> "anaconda upgrade" boot off the cdrom and do an upgrade?
> "yum upgrade" not supported by fedora but works, I've used that to upgrade
> my boxes since yum came out.

My plan is to support both, but I haven't gotten that far yet. Still
working on network stuff.

> If you intend to use anaconda, have a look at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade

Thanks for the pointer!

> I'm thinking that the cache that would be used with anaconda could come from
> an upgrade cdrom/usbkey that has all the rpms held in a squash filesystem,
> to reduce the bandwidth. Running a script would mount the squashfs and
> pre-populate the cache that would be used later by anaconda. You don't even
> have to install preupgrade, just a matter of passing the preupgrade flag to
> anaconda, to use the pre-created cache when booting the cdrom. I've not
> tried this yet, but the idea is sound. I'm going to test the space savings
> that may be available.

I'll look into it later. Thanks for the hints...!



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