On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 11:00 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > fre 2012-06-01 klockan 09:48 -0700 skrev Adam Williamson: > > > Frankly, I'd prefer it if we more strongly recommended that people do > > DVD/netinst upgrades. That path is less complex than preupgrade and > > involves fewer moving parts; it's easier to test and easier to fix and > > more likely, in general, to be working at any given point. > > Please no. Once Fedora is installed it really ought to be able to > upgrade itself without needing new boot media twice a year, that's just > not user friendly. It's also much safer to first download everything and > then start the RPM transaction. (IIUC a normal Anaconda upgrade will > download packages during the upgrade.) You state an aspiration, I state my advice based on practical experience. Your aspiration would be nice, sure. It doesn't accurately match reality at present. I'm happy advising experienced users who don't mind a bit of poking about to use yum to keep upgrading ad infinitum. I would not recommend it to all users, though, or say it was our supported-and-most-likely-to-work upgrade mechanism. And my most important point, anyway, is that DVD/netinst upgrade is, practically speaking, generally more reliable than preupgrade, in recent history. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
