Am 29.03.2013 21:38, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
Reindl Harald wrote:
> what is difficult in
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Upgrading_Fedor...
>
> there is a idiot-proof 1-2-3-4 instruction for each specific jump
> well, you need to understand what the changes between releases are
> dooing to understand the steps and why the order matters, but if
> you are not willing to learn this things and can not upgrade a
> Fedora installation you have two choices left
>
> * re-install from scratch
> * choose a distribution which fits your ability to flollow
A. As far as I can see, the document you recommend
starts by advising the reader to do something else,
and gives a link to this alternative method
becasue the yum upgrade is more or less for advanced users
but, hey, i did manage it years ago a few weeks after my
firs linux-only desktop machine
To me that is confusing, for a start.
It is rather like opening a Russian grammar,
and being told you would do better to study Greek.
no, it starts only with the hint "avoid it if you are
not familar with linux, yum and rpm-dependencies at all"
B. I should say that to date I have always moved to a new
distribution -
I have gone through all Fedora distributions since the first -
by installing the new distribution on a spare partition,
keeping the old in case the new one does not work.
and i have always done yum-upgrades from my first day with
fedora, switched a large production infrastructure to fedora
and did yum-upgardes in priduction several hundrets of times
I expect to do the same in the future,
though I am always open to new methods.
as i will do the same with yum-upgardes since
the one and only try with preupgrade was the only
one which resultet in a bricked system and hous
to repair it
as i work with my machines and not only playing i have
no time to install from scratch twice a year and waste
two dys to have ALL my specific configurations in place
So I was only reading the documents mentioned out of interest.
As I said, I found them rather confusing.
what is confusing there?
It is true, probably, that one could abstract an
"idiot-proof"
1-2-3-4 instruction if one deleted 80% of the document.
Are there really people trying to update from Fedora-13 to Fedora-14?
for people like you there are anchors on top of the page
you need only to know the number of your installed version
and click on the right link
I would extend Thompson's dictum that "a program should do
one thing,
and do it well" to documentation
if you want only ONE way to do things switch to Apple OSX