fedora 11 worst then ever release

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 07/26/2009 08:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 21:42 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote:
>>> Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh
>>> install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the configuration
>>> back into shape. Sound started working after I deleted ~/.pulse.
>>
>> and if you is broken then the whole system is broken! so everybody have
>> to spenda few days to get back their config. so we only have to spend a
>> few days every half year. it's even worse then if i install windows.
>> it's a really nice release.
>> why is it so difficult to upgrade packages?
>
> I upgraded my laptop from F10 to F11, with X running, via yum. It worked
> flawlessly and rebooted clean.
When I tried, FC-10's yum had been unable to process "metalinks".

May-be FC-10's yum has been updated since then ;)

> Anecdotal evidence means very little.
It may be news to you, but a single negative result invalidates a whole 
series of "positive tests" ;)

My personal list of "upgrade FC-10->FC-11 failures" is rather lengthyg, 
however most of the issues I encountered were related to preupdate, 
anaconda and rel-eng mistakes.

Ralf