On 23.12.2011 01:04, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 > > How long does it take to prepare that first one? > > Preupgrade took me about 44 hours, F14 to F15. Yum upgrade would have > been about the same, according to my past experiences. what the hell takes 44 hours? on mobile-internet maybe i do not calculate one-time download >> 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 > > But I'm sure you didn't have 3,450 packages in you virtual machines. no 1,7134 - do not forget the devel-stuff but who acres on modern ahrwadre and 100Mbit WAN? > But I do wish the upgrade weren't so much of a chasm to cross every > six months. if you have a problem with the every six months fedora is wrong for you - but if you like fresh software CentOS is wrong for you you can not have frehs software and no big upgrades not now and not in the future
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