----- "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > > The DVD does not include updates when doing the upgrade, which means > it is > fully expected that some packages will not be updated because they're > newer > in Fedora 14 updates than in Fedora 15 GA. Running "yum upgrade" or > "yum > distro-sync" after the DVD upgrade should fix it. (The latter will > also > downgrade packages if even Fedora 15 updates have an older version > than > Fedora 14 updates. Such a situation is actually a bug, but it still > happens > sometimes, so distro-sync is more robust.) > > My recommendation is to use preupgrade or > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum instead of > the > DVD. (The former is the official recommendation, the latter is how I > upgrade > my machines.) >
In the #fedora IRC channel I have seen 100 preupgrade failures for every one DVD upgrade failure roughly, I have nicknamed it preFAILupgrade. So much so I already had a draft started and was a bit shocked to read it was a DVD upgrade failure... so as always YMMV. -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robert 'Bob' Jensen || Fedora Unity Founder | | b...@fedoraunity.org || http://fedoraunity.org/ | | http://bjensen.fedorapeople.org/ | | http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen | | http://www.facebook.com/rpjensen | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
