On 22.12.2011 20:29, mike cloaked wrote: > Of course others may largely have had no problems with ugrades and > maybe I was just the one unlucky one! Anyway with all the QA testing > on recent versions as well as the QA testing of the upgrade path > perhaps my experience of it is simply outdated. i made some hundret dist-upgrades since 2006 with yum yes they are sometimes not "start and forget" but it takes me 1-3 days after a fresh-install (many services, customized configs) and so i prepare dist-upgrades on ONE virtual machine there are important packages rebuilt from source with removed restart of services due update, newer versions than fedora for many reasons and after the preparing each dist-upgrade on the other servers takes 5-7 minutes while all services are running and 20-30 seconds for the reboot i see no reason to go the windows "install from scratch" way on a linux system since you can check all things before reboot and yes you are responsible to do this as admin maybe on simple-minded machines with no customizations a fresh install is the faster way, but soch browse-only and "eat what i get" setups do not interest me in any way
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
-- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
