Upgrade to FC4 final?

[Daniel Gonzalez]

> I upgraded from RH8 to FC1 and I still find some issues on my machine 
> from this.


Robin-

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.

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

Dan Gonzalez



Robin Laing wrote:

> Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> Harald-
>>
>> I asked this question earlier and I was directed to the following 
>> URL. It seems like a good place to start
>>
>> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
>>
>> Hope that helps
>> Dan Gonzalez
>>
>> Harald Grossauer wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I have seen there are no more updates for FC4test3, but 
>>> FC4 final is not released yet.
>>>
>>> Just in advance: what do I have to do when FC4 final is released? 
>>> Activate the appropriate repos, which are already configured in 
>>> /etc/yum.repos.d but not enabled, and call "yum update"?
>>>
>>> Will that be enough to get a "clean and complete" FC4 final 
>>> installation? Or would it be better to download the ISO images and 
>>> completely reinstall FC4 from scratch?
>>>
>
> I had a comment based on the upgrade method that there are packages 
> that were missing or things that were not in the menu but installed on 
> the system.  His advice.  Do a clean install instead of an upgrade.
>
> I upgraded from RH8 to FC1 and I still find some issues on my machine 
> from this.
>