On 05/26/2015 03:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > 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. >
If I were to add anything to the fedup documentation it would be Start this and then go to lunch. It's gonna be a while. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
