[lug] Fedora 7 is out, but don't yum upgrade

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:06:08 -0600
tromey at redhat.com (Tom Tromey) wrote:

> >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> writes:
> 
> Kevin> Just today I used yum to upgrade my old fc6 laptop to f7. 
> Kevin> Worked dandy.
> 
> I've also seen a report or two of it working.
> I haven't yet tried it myself; I'm a little conservative about
> upgrading, and for yum upgrading I like to let a bunch of risk-takers
> try it first before I do :-)

Happy to help. ;) My old laptop went so smoothly, I will probibly start
in on the rest of my server boxes soon. 
> 
> Kevin> I'd personally love to see yum upgrades supported, but I
> Kevin> understand why they might not want to do that...
> 
> I'd love it too.  I wonder what the holdup is, given that it often
> already works.  Maybe my configurations are too vanilla to see the
> problems.

Well, my understanding is that there are some odd special cases that
anaconda (the installer/upgrader) handles that yum can't. Things like: 
switching lvm from old to lvm2, odd special cases to work around rpm
bugs (like when a package changes a directory to a symlink), etc. 
Things that you can do, but really don't want to be doing on a machine
while it's up and running in full multiuser mode. 

kevin

> 
> Tom
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