preupgrade choices

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Wed Mar 18 21:15:36 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 16:51 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote: 
> > Oscar<Soker> wrote: 
> > > PreUpgrade is an application users run on an existing Fedora 8 or
> > > above installation
> > > 
> > > 
> > > and you are running it on fedora 7 maybe that's the problem
> > 
> > Hmm.... That's strange.  I've run it before on Fedora 7 without
> > problems.  And today I did a 'yum install preupgrade' from this F7
> > machine and yum found it in the repo and it installed.
> > 
> > ????
> > 
> I just successfully completed the F7 => F9 preupgrade process on this
> first machine.  So preupgrade works fine on F7.  The WIKI needs
> changed to say "... on an existing Fedora 7 or above installation".
> You want people to upgrade, but by saying only F8 and above you are
> discouraging F7 users from upgrading.   F7 users need to know that
> 'preupgrade' works fine for them as well.

Not really. The preupgrade in F7 is old and sketchy. It's known to be
unstable and *will* break horribly under certain (not uncommon)
circumstances. I'm glad you were lucky enough to get through it
unscathed!

If anyone else is still using F7, it *might* work better if you install
the F8 preupgrade package (which *can* upgrade to F10) and use that
instead. But I haven't tested that, because F7 is long-dead. 

I'll give that a try when I have some free time; if it works, I'll see
if it's possible to get an updated preupgrade package into the F7 repos
somehow.

-w
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