Using yum to upgrade from fc7 to fc8

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:40:55 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote:

> 
> You mean the man page is in error? It says:
> 
>               If  the  --obsoletes  flag  is  present yum will include package
>               obsoletes in its calculations - this makes it  better  for  dis-
>               tro-version  changes,  for example: upgrading from somelinux 8.0
>               to somelinux 9.

Still you need to point Yum to the repositories for the next distro
to upgrade to.

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