On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Corey Richardson <corey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:42:30 -0400 > Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Basically the same kind of failure as the last several times I did >> updates. This time f16->f17. Used preupgrade. >> > > I've heard nothing but bad things about preupgrade from lots of people, > and I've heard the developers either never hear about it, ignore it, or > don't care. I tried a preupgrade and it half-succeeded, I had to fix > the initramfs and a few other things afterwards though. IMO, it isn't > worth the pain. My anecdata beats your anecdata. Preupgrade works fine for me, and has done for several releases now. Considering it's just anaconda with a reboot in the middle, that's not too surprising. -- Rob K http://ningaui.net I swear, if I collected all seven dragonballs, I'd bring back Jon Postel. - Raph -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel