[Novalug] Getting Fedora 11 to work -- Upgrading Fedora hosts difficult

Nick Danger nick@hackermonkey.com
Sun Oct 25 19:06:30 EDT 2009


Where was that "Can't we all just get along" message? I've never had 
issues upgrading Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, but then you probably don't care 
as I am not a "professional".


Paul D. Bain wrote:
> American Dave wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:16:47AM -0500, Beartooth wrote: 
>>
>>> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Charles M Howe wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a new thread. I wrote one message and got a few 
>>>> replies, but I didn't reply to any of them. [....]
>>>> Huge embarrassment. While I have no recollection of choosing 
>>>> one on Oct 10, I must have. If anybody has a suggestion, please 
>>>> say. But I expect to have to reinstall.[....] 
>>>  	Remember F12 is due out next month. At that point -- or a 
>>> few days later to let the bandwidth diminish -- you should be 
>>> able to do a pre-upgrade, let it complete, and reboot at your 
>>> convenience -- thus keeping all your tweaks.
>> Fedora's just not good at upgrading.  10 -> 11 didn't go super well for
>> me, and even the docs suggest re-imaging if it's an option.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>>
>> -A. Dave
> 
> 	Hell, yes, American Dave, you got that right. And I amazed that some of 
> the Linux "professionals" on this list _still_ do not understand this 
> simple fact. I wonder whether these "professionals" have _ever_ actually 
> attempted to upgrade a Fedora host, as they claim to have done.
> 
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