On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:42 AM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/07/2011 11:53 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> On 10/7/2011 11:25 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 10/07/2011 02:17 AM, JD wrote: >>>> Thanx. >>>> A good point. >>>> I wish the upgrade process would >>>> actually prompt the user for performing >>>> such steps. >>> Even better would be for the upgrade process to offer to do this for the >>> user so that people wouldn't have to worry about getting it right. >> Part of me is wary of trying to automate this process as I trust people >> to get it right more than a generic script(s). Maybe tools to do parts >> of the task that can be safely isolated, but not the whole shebang. >> >> Given this thread, I intend to manually do it on my F14 before going to >> F16 so I can make sure I have everything right before upgrading. A bit >> more work? Probably. But worth it in my opinion > The gist of all this is that non-techies and newbs > have no knowledge of such things and this makes > Fedora (and perhaps all distros) rather difficult to > upgrade. A script to perform the upgrade would > be a great help to automate the process. > The suggestion that the script would/might get it > wrong, while you would/might get it right, is a > a mater of personal preference. > I vote for an upgrade script for all the steps > suggested on > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum "Non-techies and newbs" really should be using preupgrade instead of trying to do a live upgrade. It saves countless headaches. -T.C. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
