Am 18.11.2012 13:58, schrieb Christopher Svanefalk: > I was just wondering if there are any known downsides to upgrading via preupgrade, as opposed to using the more > familiar upgrade methods (CD/DVD etc)? fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum read the gints for the exact version careful and you are safe i did some hundret fedora-upgrades on all sort of machines with yum incldudign some where productive work was done on a KDE desktop (NOT recommended) while the update was running anaconda/preupgrade are the same crap both left me the few times with a lot of troubles up to non booting systems witha yum upgrade you can verify bootloader, kernel and use package-cleanup BEFORE reboot instead pray to a blackbox in F18 preupgrade is replaced by something else because anaconda is pre-alpha after the rewrite - so no do not tuch anaconda after the intial setup the argumentation anaconda/preupgrade are better supported because exakt known versions is bullshit - only the target versions are known but not the installed ones after some weeks of updates on the old version - so the anaconda-update is NOT tested against the installed versions starting three days after the fedora-release
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