On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/26/2015 12:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>IIRC yum used to be recommended before fedup came along. In any case
>I've just upgraded with fedup and it worked again as it has for the
>last 4 or 5 upgrades.
Before there was the aptly-named fedup, there was preupgrade, which worked
just fine for me. Before that, the recommended upgrade was backup,
reinstall and restore. Yes, there was yum upgrade, but it was very, very
Not Recommended. Now, there's also the unofficial upgrade-fedora, and I'll
be trying on this box Real Soon Now.
Well, my first preupgrade experience was okayish, but I was also very
new to linux then. However by the time preupgrade had resolved its
issues, I had already moved on to yum. I just find it a bit surprising
that it is not *one of* the supported methods (meaning, QA tested),
specially since it works so reliably and with such short downtime.
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