Upgrade via PackageKit, etc.

[Mark Haney]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> Okay, I've dug around and not seen anything like an answer.  So I'm 
>> asking the list.  Will there be a way to upgrade to Fedora 10 (for 
>> instance) from F9 via yum/PackageKit/sacrifical lamb?  I am well aware 
>> of the difficulties of this, so I don't need a sermon on that, but 
>> I've got several Ubuntu users I maintain and their upgrade via apt-get 
>> is as smooth as I"ve seen.
> 
> Their official upgrade uses a wrapper too.

I'm aware it uses a wrapper, but it's still done (at least the 
downloading, dependency solving) while you are using the system.
> 
>> I know Fedora isn't Ubuntu, but seriously, this would be a big deal 
>> for those of use with a ton of Fedora boxes and don't want to 
>> sneakernet or PXEboot the systems.
> 
> Look at preupgrade.

This is actually very cool.  How well does it work?

> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade
> http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/15/interview-fedora-developers-seth-vidal-and-will-woods/ 
> 
> 
> Rahul
> 


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