On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:58 -0600, m g wrote: > Are there any plans for yum to be capable of something similar to > Debian's apt dist-upgrade? Given how much more volatile Fedora > development is than Debian's, I have a feeling that such a feature > wouldn't be simple ... but that same volatility is what would make it > so nice to have an easier way of upgrading from major release to major > release. There are a large number of items that simply cannot be done on a running system. not the least of which includes migrating lvm types, changing partition information, etc. it's just not reasonable or safe to do those things on running systems. -sv