On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:42 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
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Most userspace stuff is independent of kernel version though... in any case FC2->FC3 did work so it would be nice if it were officially tested and supported in some way.
But it is slightly hairy going from a fully populated /dev to a dynamic /dev populated by udev. It works, but you must be careful about what's updated when and that you don't mistakenly reboot at the wrong point. Actually, I think I may be referring to a manual piecemeal rpm update I did. Still, you wind up with some weirdness that only safely goes away on reboot. In theory, it's a good idea to support this kind of upgrade, but given the differences between some releases, updating from one to the other on a live system can cause problems. My preferred method is always to upgrade using anaconda (second only to clean installing from anaconda when possible).