Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

[Timothy Murphy]

John Aldrich 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...?
>> 
> Actually, that's exactly how I upgraded to F11 from F10. Fedora noticed
> that there was an updated version of Fedora available and asked if I
> wanted to upgrade. I said sure, so it downloaded all the RPMs and upgraded
> me.

What do you mean by "Fedora asked"?
Do you mean Yum?

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland