On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 11:00 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote:
fre 2012-06-01 klockan 09:48 -0700 skrev Adam Williamson:
> Frankly, I'd prefer it if we more strongly recommended that people do
> DVD/netinst upgrades. That path is less complex than preupgrade and
> involves fewer moving parts; it's easier to test and easier to fix and
> more likely, in general, to be working at any given point.
Please no. Once Fedora is installed it really ought to be able to
upgrade itself without needing new boot media twice a year, that's just
not user friendly. It's also much safer to first download everything and
then start the RPM transaction. (IIUC a normal Anaconda upgrade will
download packages during the upgrade.)
You state an aspiration, I state my advice based on practical
experience. Your aspiration would be nice, sure. It doesn't accurately
match reality at present. I'm happy advising experienced users who don't
mind a bit of poking about to use yum to keep upgrading ad infinitum. I
would not recommend it to all users, though, or say it was our
supported-and-most-likely-to-work upgrade mechanism. And my most
important point, anyway, is that DVD/netinst upgrade is, practically
speaking, generally more reliable than preupgrade, in recent history.
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