Upgrade from FC7 to FC8 test3 via yum

[Arch Willingham]

Thanks!

Are there any things in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#head-bdd1ed4a339aa22c95c238af0e3323c0bccf6167 that you would not/did not do?

I.E. These are the steps they mention:

# yum install yum-utils; package-cleanup --orphans

# yum clean all

# rpm -Uhv ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-*.noarch.rpm 
(does that last line get changed to ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/7.92/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-*.noarch.rpm ?)

# yum upgrade

# yum install yum-utils; package-cleanup --orphans

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of seth vidal
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 1:55 PM
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
Subject: Re: Upgrade from FC7 to FC8 test3 via yum



On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:53 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> For a variety of reasons, I can't physically get to some of our FC7
> machines but I log into them via putty. From what I understand,
> upgrading via YUM from one version to another is about like standing
> in a tub full of water with a 220 volt wire in your hand while wearing
> insulated gloves. It may work, but if it doesn't the results will not
> be pretty.

Actually, that's mostly hyperbole. It will most likely work and work w/o
pain. There may be some occasional hangups but given the f7-f8 update
set it's not much that will be very painful at all.

I've done about 5 of them so far and in general they're pretty smooth -
just make sure you're on the latest yum from f7-updates-testing and on
the latest rpm before you proceed.


-sv


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