To upgrade, or not to upgrade? Fc3 to FC4

[Edwin Dicker]

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On Behalf Of Kahn Seidl
Sent: Friday, 11 November, 2005 05:37
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Subject: To upgrade, or not to upgrade? Fc3 to FC4

Well, I have been using fc3 since its final debut, and I love it.  But, now
that IBM has released the Cell SDK for FC4... I have to consider it.


I know I can use yum to update, but, how does that compare to a fresh 
install?  I know with windows, doing an upgrade is, well... pretty crappy.  
But, i am unfamiliar with how linux works to this respect.

And... I had problems with gcc 4... is this something I can fix in the code?

    I had problems compiling things on fc4 when they worked fine on fc3 the 
last time I tried it on a seperate partition.


Thanks,
Martin



I've been using fedora since the first release and always wondered about:
would I upgrade or do a fresh install.
>From FC1 to FC2 I upgraded and it unfortunately failed by a reason I still
do not know, so I did a fresh install.
>From FC2 to FC3 to FC4 I used and upgrade, always with a backup made before
the upgrade to recover from a failed upgrade. Fortunately I never had to use
the backup. I did need to repair some config files after the upgrade, but
that was easy to do compared with fully configure a new server to your
needs.

Upgrade with a fresh backup is my recommendation. ( I never used yum to
upgrade, just the cd's )

Cheers,
Edwin