14 DAY TRIAL // The Fedora Project developers are discussing these days the possibility of redesigning their internal upgrade utility for the Fedora Linux operating system.
Will Woods, a Fedora developer, sent a message to the Fedora devel mailing list suggesting that the FedUp tool, which can be used by users to upgrade their existing Fedora installations to a new version, is in immediate need of a redesign.
"We've come to the conclusion that the current design is unsupportable, mostly due to upgrade.img, which turns out to cause more problems than it solves," says Will Woods. So! For F23, fedup needs to be redesigned. Here's how it should work."
It would appear that the recently released Fedora 22 Linux is the fifth Fedora Linux distribution handled with the FedUp utility, and that the new version should download packages for the new system and make use the systemd's offline updates functionality to install packages.
Will Woods aready started work on the matter and he created a plugin for Fedora's new package mangement system, DNF, which you can download at https://github.com/wgwoods/dnf-plugin-fedup.