FC3 upgrade

[Serge de Souza]

Phil Schaffner wrote:
> Seth Vidal had mentioned doing a guide to yum upgrades. Closest I can
> find is his message on fedora-test-list:
> 
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 14:29 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
>>To upgrade via yum the short version goes like this:
>>
>>1. backup all your data
>>2. upgrade yum to yum from fc3
>>3. upgrade fedora-release to fedora-release from fc3
>>4. make sure all your repositories point where you think they should
>>point.
>>5. run yum list updates - just to make sure things seem sane and
>>working
>>6. make sure you are NOT in X and X is not loaded
>>6. from a terminal prompt run: yum upgrade
>>7. wait wait wait
>>8. you must reboot before using your system again
>>9. reboot the system and make sure you select the new kernel, not the
>>old one(s)
>>10. once your system is fully booted you may want to install some
>>additional items. Recommended:
>>  yum groupupdate "GNOME Desktop Environment"
>>
>>
>>let me know what problems you encounter.
>>
>>-sv

Just tried an apt dist-upgrade by following the above lines and it 
chokes because of KDE... They have changed which files go into which rpm...

Serge