Fedora 10 - no longer rawhide?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> 
>>> I've read this thread, but still don't understand exactly
>>> what preupgrade does.
>>> How does it differ at present from "yum update"
>>> which seems to change /etc/fedora-release
>>> to "Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)"?
>> a google of 'fedora preupgrade' yielded the following first hit
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade
> 
> Where exactly does that document answer my query above?

It does and others have provided you the answer you are asking for as 
well. If you have specific questions, you should ask that instead since 
it is not clear what you haven't understood.

To summarize:

Simply running yum update/upgrade on a system won't take you to the next 
release. You need to download fedora-release for the release you want to 
upgrade to or change your repositories manually and run yum update. This 
usually works but it isn't a "supported" option.

Preupgrade provides a solution that looks overall very similar to a live 
upgrade. It downloads the all the package updates from the release you 
want to upgrade to (you can continue using your system meanwhile) and 
changes grub to boot Anaconda and Anaconda uses the packages downloaded 
by preupgrade to upgrade your system.  Preupgrade unlike upgrades via 
yum is more of a supported option.

Rahul