On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 24/01/12 12:30, mike cloaked wrote: > >> The number of problems that have been reported to the lists for yum >> upgrades seems very large. Although for any rolling release there >> have been occasions where unforeseen problems have arisen the day to >> day updates have been largely routine and trouble free.... hence from >> what I have observed from the lists rolling releases (which of course >> are generally a small percentage of the package set) are much less >> problematic than one giant upgrade to all packages. Also yum >> upgrades only occur once the next system version is released whereas >> rolling release means that individual components can be updated as >> soon as they release upstream. > > > I've been doing this a while, > F16 yum --releasever=17 update --bugfixes --exclude=fedora-release* Indeed as have many others - but although you might have never had a problem others have. I have done a few yum upgrades too and sometimes it worked and sometimes it needed additional investigation to get the system into a fully working state afterwards. Occasionally I have had significant issues - so I stayed with clean installs and configuring from backup config files as needed in the last year or two. See my comments in my other posts too though. -- mike c -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
