Am 29.03.2013 21:38, schrieb Timothy Murphy: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> what is difficult in >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum_directly >> >> there is a idiot-proof 1-2-3-4 instruction for each specific jump >> well, you need to understand what the changes between releases are >> dooing to understand the steps and why the order matters, but if >> you are not willing to learn this things and can not upgrade a >> Fedora installation you have two choices left >> >> * re-install from scratch >> * choose a distribution which fits your ability to flollow > > A. As far as I can see, the document you recommend > starts by advising the reader to do something else, > and gives a link to this alternative method becasue the yum upgrade is more or less for advanced users but, hey, i did manage it years ago a few weeks after my firs linux-only desktop machine > To me that is confusing, for a start. > It is rather like opening a Russian grammar, > and being told you would do better to study Greek. no, it starts only with the hint "avoid it if you are not familar with linux, yum and rpm-dependencies at all" > B. I should say that to date I have always moved to a new distribution - > I have gone through all Fedora distributions since the first - > by installing the new distribution on a spare partition, > keeping the old in case the new one does not work. and i have always done yum-upgrades from my first day with fedora, switched a large production infrastructure to fedora and did yum-upgardes in priduction several hundrets of times > I expect to do the same in the future, > though I am always open to new methods. as i will do the same with yum-upgardes since the one and only try with preupgrade was the only one which resultet in a bricked system and hous to repair it as i work with my machines and not only playing i have no time to install from scratch twice a year and waste two dys to have ALL my specific configurations in place > So I was only reading the documents mentioned out of interest. > As I said, I found them rather confusing. what is confusing there? > It is true, probably, that one could abstract an "idiot-proof" > 1-2-3-4 instruction if one deleted 80% of the document. > Are there really people trying to update from Fedora-13 to Fedora-14? for people like you there are anchors on top of the page you need only to know the number of your installed version and click on the right link > I would extend Thompson's dictum that "a program should do one thing, > and do it well" to documentation if you want only ONE way to do things switch to Apple OSX
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