On 7 Apr 2013, at 05:03, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Max Pyziur wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >> Specifically at this link, there's a link to a wonderful script >> which does the tedious work of getting you from F17-> F18: >> https://github.com/xsuchy/fedora-upgrade >> >> It's in the fine-print there beginning with the words "A small script..." > I can't say that I'm worried that this hasn't been through QA, after all fedup *has* > >> MP >> >> >>>> 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... > > > -- > I did a FedUp on my laptop and it was fine. Junk. -- 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
