FC4 -> FC6

[Timothy Murphy]

Kam Leo wrote:

> Yes, it does take a long time. My systems have almost every package is
> selected for installation. Upgrading just from FC5 to FC6 took about
> forever. This is especially apparent when a system has the mimimum
> (256MB) amount of recommended memory. You can see the hard drive being
> accessed all the time while the DVD drive sits idle.

I upgraded and installed FC5-FC6 on the same (450MHz PIII) machine,
and did not notice any great difference in time.

> IMHO, this is probably due to use of an inefficient algorithm for
> processing the packages. Smart package manager had a similar problem
> until they changed algorithms.

I assumed upgrade and clean install both use yum.
Is that incorrect?

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