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⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering
https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree
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auto-rebase (on EOL) #297

Open cgwalters opened 8 years ago

cgwalters commented 8 years ago

For Fedora in particular, I think we should implement a model where we have a bit of metadata in a "final f23 commit" that tells the system to perform an automatic rebase to f24.

teppot commented 3 months ago

An option to auto-rebase on EOL would be very useful for rpm-ostree based systems.

Some users don't install updates no matter how much you nag them. I can automate OS updates with rpm-ostreed-automatic, container updates with podman-auto-update and app updates with GNOME Software. Automatically rebasing to the next major OS version when the current version goes EOL is the final missing piece from a fully automatically upgrading system.

With this you could install Linux on a computer and know that that computer will always stay up-to-date without you commiting to maintaining it. This would be useful in many situations like installing Linux for strangers at installfests or for less-often-visited relatives or even at recycling centres or NGOs that distribute hardware.