On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 16:51 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
Gerry Reno wrote:
> Oscar<Soker> wrote:
> > PreUpgrade is an application users run on an existing Fedora 8 or
> > above installation
> >
> >
> > and you are running it on fedora 7 maybe that's the problem
>
> Hmm.... That's strange. I've run it before on Fedora 7 without
> problems. And today I did a 'yum install preupgrade' from this F7
> machine and yum found it in the repo and it installed.
>
> ????
>
I just successfully completed the F7 => F9 preupgrade process on this
first machine. So preupgrade works fine on F7. The WIKI needs
changed to say "... on an existing Fedora 7 or above installation".
You want people to upgrade, but by saying only F8 and above you are
discouraging F7 users from upgrading. F7 users need to know that
'preupgrade' works fine for them as well.
Not really. The preupgrade in F7 is old and sketchy. It's known to be
unstable and *will* break horribly under certain (not uncommon)
circumstances. I'm glad you were lucky enough to get through it
unscathed!
If anyone else is still using F7, it *might* work better if you install
the F8 preupgrade package (which *can* upgrade to F10) and use that
instead. But I haven't tested that, because F7 is long-dead.
I'll give that a try when I have some free time; if it works, I'll see
if it's possible to get an updated preupgrade package into the F7 repos
somehow.
-w