Which package name should be use when Fedora 9 release and I upgarde my Fedora 8

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 13 06:06:43 UTC 2008


Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I used yim to upgraded from Fedora 7 to 8 for two days ago because of
> Kernel "device remap" problem and the problem don't happen in Fedora
> 8.
> If there is a better way to do that from Fedora 8 to 9. I would choose
> this preupgrade first because yum seem slower.

Preupgrade downloads the packages to your local system and points 
Anaconda to that which internally uses yum to resolve dependencies.

> By the way, I saw the author page said the package is not in test now
> and planning to make some improvement.

Yes, the software itself is considered complete but the package is sitll 
in the testing repository pending the Fedora 9 release.

Rahul




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