Warning against preupgrade

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 25 June 2009 13:53:43 John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thursday 25 June 2009, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> > 2 out of 5 failures.  F10->F11 is completely unusable for any kind of
> > "uncommon" setup, i.e. LDAP login, Linux RAID, Xen DomU.  Anything other
> > than one IDE hard disk with default layout really.
> >
> > It worked well in the past, it doesn't now.  Just a heads up since
> > nobody bothered mentioning this beforehand.  It should probably be added
> > to "common bugs" and in a big banner on the release notes.
>
> Well, F10 ->F11 worked fine for me. However, I let F10 update itself to
> F11. I was prompted that there was a new version of Fedora available and
> did I want to install it? I allowed Fedora to upgrade itself and everything
> went smoothly. I have a total of 3 HDDs in this system and do NOT have a
> standard layout.
>
> So, I think the phrase YMMV is appropriate here. That being said, I think
> that, yes, there may be some things that break in an upgrade like this, but
> it should be relatively easy to fix, I would think. Common sense says to
> back up any crucial config files in case they are overwritten.

I used the same method and it has been a horrendous job to sort it out.  I had 
been using repos like updates-testing and kde-fedora's similar one and it 
looks as though that may have caused a lot of the problems.

Anne
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