On 05/26/2015 05:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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 > I had about 2800 packages to update, cleanup, and verify. -- -- Steve -- 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
