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[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 14:19 +0000, M A Young wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> >> How do I explain that "supports it" bit to "regular users"?  Or
> >> anaconda will be smart enough to do that _reliably_ during upgrades
> >> and/or installations?
> >
> > Or yum during updates?
> 
> It would certainly be nice if yum handled this change sensibly, but I 
> don't think there is a requirement for it to work, because the only 
> supported means of upgrading from Fedora version to Fedora version is via 
> the anaconda installation process. Changes within alphas and betas are 
> only relevant if they reflect problems that will occur in supported 
> upgrades between full Fedora versions.
> However if yum can't handle the update, then the issue should certainly be 
> mentioned in the release notes (the kernel change should probably be 
> mentioned anyway).

explain "yum can't handle the update". It sure looks like yum is
handling the update. Or do you mean the detection of PAE vs non PAE?

-sv