Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Sat Nov 7 16:11:45 UTC 2009
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> When there is a new release of Fedora, GNOME PackageKit or specifically
> gpk-update-icon which is the update notifier prompts you to upgrade with
> a notification on your desktop
>
> http://packagekit.org/img/gpk-distro-upgrade-notify.png
>
> If you agree, in Fedora, it will call preupgrade to perform the actual
> upgrade. This works starting from Fedora 10 onwards.
One problem with preupgrade for me is that it requires me
to have an ethernet connection (if I understand it correctly),
which is a bit of a nuisance with my laptop.
I don't see why I shouldn't use WiFi if I want to take the risk.
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Timothy Murphy
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