Am 04.12.2011 12:53, schrieb Ralf Ertzinger: > Hi. > > On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:24:00 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote > >> some releases ago it was no problem to do a dist-upgrade with yum >> where all services wehre running without any interruption > > From the wiki: > "Version updates without using anaconda - such as the yum method described > here - is unsupported and not recommended!" > > I wonder why that might be. well, i am fedora-user since FC5 and made more than 200 dist-upgrades per yum the one try with pre-upgrade was a joke anaconda is unuseable on a server because it is a OFFLINE upgrade and you have generally no control if something goes wrong - how do you control the grub-config before the reboot - hey you can't because it's too late > Please look at the history of the spec files of the packages in question, > I think you will find that most of them have been calling > "service condrestart" or something similar during update for a long time. and i am building most server packages by myself since a long time because of that behavior > httpd is actually one of those packages which have gained this rather > recently (comparatively speaking): F10 was the first release that did it. there are users out there for which F10 is not a so long time ago a dist-upgrade from fc3 to fc6 via yum was a) no probkem and b) you could restart the machine on the next day
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