Re: Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path

[MHR <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did the upgrade dance with yum once when going from Fedora 5 to 7. It
> worked, but took a lot of time and left a helluva' lot of obscure lib-failures
> and stuff. I eventually got it working but I never felt sure it wouldn't fail
> on me whenever. After running the upgraded system for a month or so w/o any
> problems, I decided to do a fresh install from scratch with CentOS5 and clear
> all FUD I had left.
>
> Yum -upgrades works, but you'll potentially spend a lot of time clearing and
> fixing problems afterwards. You want a quick install, do a fresh one. Don't
> forget to backup your data first though.
>

I upgrade between minor releases, and that seems to work fairly well.
But for any major release, I'd go for a clean install.

mhr
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