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[M A Young]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, seth vidal wrote:

> 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?

This thread started because someone had a kernel.i686 package which wasn't 
being updated because new kernels were either kernel.i586 or 
kernel-PAE.i686 so yum clearly wasn't handling the kernel changes. If this 
is still the case when Fedora 11 is released then there should be 
something in the release notes explaining the changes, so that anyone 
trying to use yum to upgrade directly between Fedora versions (something 
that isn't supported but has more or less worked in the past) knows 
what the problem is and can fix it.

 	Michael Young