On 11/07/2009 08:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 09:22 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: >> On Saturday 07 November 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> I upgraded from CentOS-5.3 to CentOS-5.4 >>> (and earlier from CentOS-5.2 to CentOS-5.3) >>> just by running "yum update". >>> >>> Why can't I upgrade to Fedora-12 like that? >>> Is it just that the CentOS makers are cleverer...? >>> >> Actually, that's exactly how I upgraded to F11 from F10. Fedora noticed >> that there was an updated version of Fedora available and asked if I wanted >> to upgrade. I said sure, so it downloaded all the RPMs and upgraded me. > > Presumably you're talking about the Package Manager. yum on its own > isn't going to ask you if you want to upgrade Fedora. Here it how this works: When there is a new release of Fedora, GNOME PackageKit or specifically gpk-update-icon which is the update notifier prompts you to upgrade with a notification on your desktop http://packagekit.org/img/gpk-distro-upgrade-notify.png If you agree, in Fedora, it will call preupgrade to perform the actual upgrade. This works starting from Fedora 10 onwards. Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
