Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 15:09:43 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 09:22 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Saturday 07 November 2009, 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...?
> > 
> 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. 

Presumably you're talking about the Package Manager. yum on its own
isn't going to ask you if you want to upgrade Fedora.

poc




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