On 10/07/2011 02:32 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > 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. Pre-upgrade is not without it's own headaches. Furthermore, it does not alleviate the manual steps outlined in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum that non-techies and newbs will be required to undertake, such as deleting the leaves (orphans), and running synch ... etc. -- 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
