On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 16:06 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > On 05/26/2015 03:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 05/26/2015 12:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > IIRC yum used to be recommended before fedup came along. In any > > > > case > > > > I've just upgraded with fedup and it worked again as it has for > > > > the > > > > last 4 or 5 upgrades. > > > > > > Before there was the aptly-named fedup, there was preupgrade, > > > which worked > > > just fine for me. Before that, the recommended upgrade was > > > backup, > > > reinstall and restore. Yes, there was yum upgrade, but it was > > > very, very > > > Not Recommended. Now, there's also the unofficial upgrade > > > -fedora, and I'll > > > be trying on this box Real Soon Now. > > > > Well, my first preupgrade experience was okayish, but I was also > > very > > new to linux then. However by the time preupgrade had resolved its > > issues, I had already moved on to yum. I just find it a bit > > surprising > > that it is not *one of* the supported methods (meaning, QA tested), > > specially since it works so reliably and with such short downtime. > > > > If I were to add anything to the fedup documentation it would be > > Start this and then go to lunch. It's gonna be a while. YMMV. In my case it was all over in 30 minutes, but I have a reasonably fast machine and Internet connection. I wouldn't expect the total elapsed time to vary much with alternative upgrade methods. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
