[Fwd: RH9 --> Fedora]

[Noah Silva [Mailing list]]

> Has anyone written an "Upgrading RedHat to Fedora Core" document?
> That would be useful for those not quite as comfortable with all
> the options available.

I don't think this is nessisary.  Redhat could have saved themselves a lot
of grief by calling this "Redhat 10" ;). I think they wanted to make it
seem less "official" to businesses, and make things more open for hobbiest
types.  Neither of which is really bad.

> Addressing at least issues like the following:
>
> - Will I want to download the ISOs and burn CDs to do an upgrade
>   or will I be able to upgrade by using up2date/apt/yum?

If you are going from something like redhat 8 or 9, I think you want to do
an upgrade install with the CDs (or NFS, etc.).

> - If I can use up2date/apt/yum, what changes do I need to make
>   in what files in order to do that?

If you really wanted to try this, you could install yum, and set it to
fetch from rawhide (right now).  I can see a number of problems with this
right now.  For example, I dont' think rawhide has all of the packages
from FC1 in it, just more recent changes.  Once there is an FC1 channel,
this coudl concievably been done, but I have never seen redhat support
something like this.  Even distros designed to do it occasioanlly have
issues.

> - If I have RedHat Linux version 7.x, 8, 9, etc. what are the
>   things to look out for.

Technically speaking: The change from RH 8 or 9 to FC 1 is nowhere as
drastic as the change from RH 7 to RH 8. (in my opinion).

> - Once I'm upgraded to FC1, how do I stay current with patches
>   and updates?

you can use up2date or yum.  (And up2date can pull from yum sources or
RHN).  I assume you can stay on rawhide if you want to stay on whatever
redhat is playing with at the moment (much like debian unstable), or you
can stick with some sort of "fedora core 1" channel if you want to only
get bug fixes.

> That sort of thing.  I'd contribute it myself but I don't know
> enough.

 -- noah silva