On 04/06/2013 03:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 04/06/2013 03:05 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I've been away for some weeks & am now back so I'm looking at >> possibilities for upgrading 17 -> 18 seeing as 17 will be EOL in around >> eight to ten weeks. >> >> After the initial problems with FedUp, I read last night over on >> Bugzilla about its progress & the latest testing (which looks like it's >> going to go stable next week) is looking pretty solid. >> >> So the question is, is everybody been happy with the upgrade process via >> FedUp lately? > > No. I gave up on it after it failed miserably on a couple of test > upgrades in the early phases of f18. May-be it has seen improvements > since then, but I didn't look back at it, since then, because I found > the procedures outlined on > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18 > > so far worked reliably. Thanks to everybody for their answers. Just for the sake of reporting any findings to Bugzilla, I'll attempt another upgrade via FedUp in a VM but I think I'll upgrade the machine in question using yum. It's a shame. I went from 12 sequentially through to 17 using preupgrade without a single hitch. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc -- 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
