How to for upgrading from F7 to F8 via yum?

[Jon Ciesla]

> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:22:02 -0400
> Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> > 2. Manually download and install fedora-release* rpms for the new
>> > version.
>>
>> In general, you may also need to install the new kernel and reboot
>> into it.
>
> Can you give any specific examples of this today?  We may have had them
> in the past, but that's no reason to continue advocating this
> (possibly unnecessary) step.

I concur with Jesse.  I only reboot my boxes after a glibc upgrade or a
release upgrade, or a kernel security fix.  I can think of no reason to
reboot before upgrading releases, unless it's for one of the above
reasons, generally.

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