Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:05:17PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Is there a better way than fedup, and why is it so slow?
The last few upgrades, I went by the yum method. Despite all the warnings on the wiki, this seems to be the smoothest of all upgrade methods I have tried since F10.
Hope this helps,
Appreciated! Having just wasted a lot of time with fedup, it may, I'll go check the wiki in the morning. On the first try I started with about 2G free, and got this:
18-fedup-64:root> time fedup --iso /mnt/10space/Downloads/ISO/Fedora/Fedora- 19/Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD/Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso setting up repos... getting boot images... setting up update... finding updates 100% [=========================================================================] testing upgrade transaction rpm transaction 100% [=========================================================================]
Upgrade test failed with the following problems: insufficient disk space need 395M free on / (447M free) fedup ERROR: Upgrade test failed. rpm transaction 100% [=========================================================================]
real 1m35.615s user 0m17.963s sys 0m3.339s 18-fedup-64:root>
Which wasn't obvious, since the error message appears to say I have more than I need.
So I cleared more space and tried again, which ran to completion and told me to reboot. There was about a GB of stuff in the /var/tmp/fedora-upgrade tree, which was encouraging. I did the reboot, and the default boot option was Fedora upgrade, which started, put up a screen with a crawling white line, and when done booted back into Fedora18. Checking /boot there are no Fedora19 images, and /var/tmp/fedora-upgrade is now empty of all the stuff it had there before the reboot. Nothing is changed as far as I can see. I got this behavior with both a network upgrade and upgrade from an iso image with no visible network activity.
I'm very ready to try the yum method, since fedup is no more functional for me than ever, less actually, since it did eventually complete the last time I updated these machines.