Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Aug 7 14:52:33 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:26 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 06:53 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 08:30 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > 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.
> > ----
> > I guess I don't know what your contribution to this thread is then because I quoted your statement above where you said you hadn't used preupgrade and then you come back and say that you have.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> Craig,
> I don't know why we have such trouble communicating. I said I upgraded
> from one distribution to the next. I did not say I used preupgrade to do
> it. 
> I am willing to listen to your testimony, but I am unaware that you can
> upgrade from F8 to F9 by using yum upgrade. At some point you would have
> to change the repos. Are you aware of anyone doing what Armin
> suggests,i.e. performing an upgrade essentially to a new distribution
> using yum upgrade alone.
> 
> I am willing to learn something new, if that can be done.
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been discussed on list many times

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum/YumUpgradeFaq

Craig




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