On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 14:23:49 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/08/2014 02:08 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> "yum install fedup" actually does something, without complaining.
> But does Fedora still use fedup?? If not, what? I'd expected this list
> to be abuzz by now with posts about upgrading, but I don't see them.
> Are things in general really going so swimmingly that nobody questions
> anything??
I've never had a bit of trouble with it on my laptop and I've never had
fedup work properly on my desktop. Go know. I'm going to have to
upgrade the desktop before F19 expires, and I'm considering trying the
unofficial fedora-upgrade tool and see if it works better.
By "unofficial fedora-upgrade tool" I suppose you mean "yum
upgrade"? I've seen posts about it, but never tried it myself.
(I've always
had fedup hang, leaving large numbers of duplicate packages and the
system only working in CLI mode. Generally speaking, it takes several
days worth of manual cleanup before package-cleanup --cleandupes will
work in a reasonable time frame. Maybe yum-complete-transaction would
be better.) And, to answer your question, fedup is still the official
upgrade tool.
I had somehow missed the information on full release as of 12/9;
so I guess I'm jumping the gun a bit. I apologize for that.
However, as I tried to say before, I'm left with my two main PCs
running F21 Alpha and respectively F21 Beta. Beta is all right. I've
often installed a Beta on an expendable machine -- not that I can help
much, if at all, but just to get a foretaste.
However, I've never touched an Alpha before, and I'm stunned at
having no problems, so far <touch wood!>. I guess what I'm after is any
clue on whether I'm better off putting my Beta install medium into the
Alpha machine, or simply running fedup on it. Or, I suppose, keeping both
as they are and hanging on for another month. Thoughts??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.