[K12OSN] Release cycle too fast

[Eric Feldhusen]

>> --- Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What you've described below is exactly how apt works with debian.
>> and I think that's how yum works on fedora.
>> 
>> Jim McQuillan jam at Ltsp.org

Rob Owens wrote:
 > Jim,
 >
 > Just to be clear, are you saying that I can apt or yum from one
 > release version and end up with the latest release version?  for
 > example, using yum to upgrade from FC2 to FC3.
 >
 > -Rob

According to guys on the fedora lists, exactly.  But I've never done it 
myself, so I can't give you the specifics.

Some of the posts on the fedora list have had guys going from redhat 6.2 
-> redhat 7.0 -> redhat 7.3 -> redhat 9.0 -> fedora core 1 -> fedora 
core 2 -> fedora core 3 and also, some have worked from redhat 7.3 -> 
fedora core 2... wild stuff.  And that's using both yum and apt.  From 
what I've gathered, the more you've stuck with using rpm for all your 
software installing, updates, and removal, the better it works for 
updating.  If you've done a lot of installing software from source, 
creating symbolic links for libraries to make stuff work, making the 
system "you" specific, updating between major version updates doesn't 
work well.  But, like I've said, I've seen posts from several people 
that have done it.

Eric

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