How to for upgrading from F7 to F8 via yum?

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 09:07 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
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> > Just wondering if someone was going to write a howto on how to
> > correctly upgrade F7 to F8 via yum so that features like PulseAudio are
> > installed correctly?
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> > When going from FC6 to F7 after the yum upgrade I remember having to do
> > something like 'yum groupupdate "GNOME Desktop Environment"' to get a
> > few things installed.
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> > I would prefer to use yum to upgrade my machine, but I have the feeling
> > that if I do that some things won't be quite right.
> 
> Eventually, here:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/LiveUpgrade
> 
> Put, basically, I do it like this:
> 
> 1. Read the release notes.  Do anything required pre-upgrade.
> 2. Manually download and install fedora-release* rpms for the new version.
> 3. yum clean all

Alternative step 4 if you're running x86_64:
yum shell
remove dbus.i386
update
run

> 5. Get more coffee
> 6. Read /.
> 7. When yum is finished, reboot.
> 8. Clean up anything required post-install from the release notes.
> 9. Profit!!

thanks
-sv