Update from FC1 to FC2

[Brian A. Kee]

Thats funny, I was just talking to a debian guy that I know. He was telling
me about apt-get. I will be sure to check it out.

<OT>
I personally use Gentoo's emerge system. It seems to be somewhat of a cross
between the BSD ports system and yum/apt-get/red-carpet. It really provides
all of the update/upgrade functionality I need (well mostly). The only bad
thing about it for managing multiple systems is that it is source-based, and
it maintains a local package list (portage) on each system. Though I can
usually make them work with Gentoo, most of the 3rd party apps/vendors I use
will not support Gentoo. In any case, as far as RPM distros I have been
extremely happy with RedHat/Fedora Core.
</OT>

Again,

Thank you for you input.

BAK

<disclaimer>
I've never tried this but...
</disclaimer>

Apt-get is a package management tool that has been ported from debian.
I use it for updating my system.  It has an option called
"dist-upgrade".  This intelligently handles dependencies so that one can
upgrade from one release to another.  To go about this you would need to
install the apt rpm from fedora.us or similar site for your current
release (FC1).  You then need to configure the sources.list file and/or
contents or the sources.list.d directory to only have the core and
possibly the update directories for the desired release (FC2).  You then
run as root "apt-get update" to update the sources and "apt-get
dist-upgrade" to update your system to current.  I remember seeing some
posts on this list from people who did this successfully. However, you
might want to ask on this list (perhaps in a new thread) to get some
feedback first.  Especially if these are critical systems.  I hope that
this is more like what you're looking for.