Upgrade to FC4 final?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Jun 8 17:56:05 UTC 2005
Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
>> I upgraded from RH8 to FC1 and I still find some issues on my machine
>> from this.
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> Robin-
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> Could it be that your upgrade skipped a major version number? I'm not
> trying to be a troll, just curious.
> It would seem to me that going from a final release candidate to a
> release version should not require a full install.
> If that's the case, then something needs to be addressed with the
> current update mechanism.I'm not a programmer but I pride myself in the
> fact that I can usually grind out a solution to whatever's presesnted to
> me. If I do find something useful, that pearl of wisdom will be passed
> on. The only issue i can see is that if someone installed FC3test 3 and
> continually updated through yum, at this point their system is already
> tracking FC5-devel. What would indicate to me that I can stop tracking
> devel and "put the brakes on" to a release version? I guess that should
> have been my initial question.
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> If continual discussion of this issue is beating a dead horse, please
> let me know and I'll drop the issue. I'm relatively new to the list and
> to Fedora so I don't know what is proper netiquette for this list
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> Dan Gonzalez
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I did miss the RH9 so this is an issue. The comment from one of the
sysadmins was to do a clean install. He had gone the version to
version upgrade. This was stated just last week.
Previous discussions on upgrading versus clean install has always
seemed to end in doing a clean install. Even when moving from test to
release. It can be searched in the archives. If I remember
correctly, there may be some residue code or errors from previous bug
fixes that may not be properly dealt with.
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Robin Laing
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