Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

Sat Nov 7 13:23:15 UTC 2009

On 11/07/2009 06:51 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> I upgraded from CentOS-5.3 to CentOS-5.4
> (and earlier from CentOS-5.2 to CentOS-5.3)
> just by running "yum update".
> 
> Why can't I upgrade to Fedora-12 like that?
> Is it just that the CentOS makers are cleverer...?

CentOS is just a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since there is no
point release of Fedora, you have to compare a upgrade from say CentOS
4.x to CentOS 5.x.

Other than that, I have continued to use yum (and other times using
preupgrade) to upgrade to new releases of Fedora and they have worked fine.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading

Rahul