FC 5 > FC6 via YUM update

[Scott van Looy]

Today Kevin J. Cummings did spake thusly:

> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> On 10/24/06, Jim Douglas <jdz99 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to upgrade via YUM to FC6 from FC5?
>>
>> In theory, it should work, but its not a 'supported' upgrade method.
>> You need to manually upgrade the fedora-release RPM, and then you
>> should be able to just run 'yum update'.
>
> Actually, you should use the "yum upgrade" command to handle any
> packages that have been obsoleted....
>
>> I've done it several times successfully upgrading from FC4 to FC5.  I
>> plan to try again for FC6.

I did it yesterday with minimal hassle on a dual athlon MP box and a dual 
Opteron box. Both seem quite happy

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