Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 7 13:30:34 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:48 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 16:25 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 01:45 -0300, Armin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 05 August 2008 23:50:19 kwhiskerz wrote:
> > > > That was a lot of answers. I guess I get the drift. I have tried Rawhide,
> > > > but found it too much work, except when it gets close to a release and I
> > > > just can't wait any longer. It sure would be nice if one didn't have to
> > > > keep reinstalling twice a year and still have the latest. Well, someone,
> > > > someday may figure it out. Rawhide is not for me. Too much work.
> > > the thing about Fedora or any other Linux distro is that you don't have to
> > > reinstall it everyday like Windows (or every week if you're lucky). You can
> > > just have one installation for years. For that, refer to yum upgrade. you
> > > don't have to reinstall the whole thing! just upgrade it :D
> > > --
> > > Armin
> > >
> > I have not used preupgrade but historically the result of upgrading has
> > not been very satisfactory. Many posts on fedora-list have made this
> > clear. And of course there is a limited time before upgrading is no
> > longer supported.
> ----
> I have used preupgrade and it worked.
>
> But preupgrade wasn't what Armin recommended or talked about.
>
> Craig
>
Neither was I talking about preupgrade. If upgrading worked for you, you
were one of the lucky ones. It sometimes worked for me.
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