First impressions of a system update with yum

[Gerry Reno]

I successfully upgraded from FC5 to FC6 by having only packages 
installed using yum.  Before that I always has a lot of tarball installs 
on the system and then upgrading to a new release was just a disaster 
every time I had tried it.  Of course the upgrade to FC6 wasn't without 
problems, like i586 kernel, and the upgrade breaking in the middle and 
leaving a huge number of duplicate packages installed.  So there was a 
lot of cleanup to do.  But I'm really encouraged to hear that it looks 
like a FC6 - FC7 upgrade is going good without major problems (at least 
on 32-bit).  :-)


Benjamin Lewis wrote:
> Yeah, its just it usually explodes when I do it, so I'm happy - now to
> sort out my laptop...
>
> Jon Ciesla wrote:
>   
>> Actually, I've done this several times, I have a server that began life as
>> FC3, and another as RH8.  I've been yum upgrading since FC3, and this was
>> just my first for F7.  I several more to do yet. :)
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Same here, no problems - this is the first time its worked for me too!
>>>
>>> Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> My first 32-bit x86 yum upgrade is finished, with no major
>>>> complications.
>>>> So far.  I'll let you know. . .
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>