Am 15.08.2013 18:02, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: > On 08/15/2013 05:32 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 15.08.2013 17:17, schrieb Ralf Corsepius: >>> On 08/15/2013 04:36 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: >>>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: >>>> >>>>> Am 15.08.2013 15:40, schrieb Paul Wouters: >>>>>> We can't tell people to re-install from scratch every 6 months. >>>>>> What we need is an "apt-get dist-upgrade" equivalent. >>>>> >>>>> *we have* >>>>> >>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum >>>>> >>>>> i currently count 450 dist-upgrade this way and the oldest >>>>> setups are upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 18 - the only >>>>> stupid is that instead spend more effort in the yum-upgrades >>>>> waste all the time with preupgrade/fedup and whatever the >>>>> next inkarnation is known >>>> >>> And yet another issue is the fedora-distribution occasionally carrying packages >>> with greater NEVRs in older releases than in newer release. >> >> what does *not* matter in case of "yum distro-sync" > It does matter, esp in case of the kernel, because the kernel is treated differently > from most other packages in yum. the only case and exactly here is yum the *better* variant you can verify kernel/grub-config *before* reboot and it is no problem to fix this before the shiny tools for upgrade including anaconda in F13 days did leave me machines more than once in a unbootable state which not happened in any of the 450 yum-dist-upgrades i made so far from FC6 to F19 > Another case it matters is case when package versions are identical. > In these cases, even though the NEVRS may be identical, the contents > can be different (different paths, different deps etc.) nonsense yum-3.4.3-54.fc18.noarch > yum-3.4.3-54.fc17.noarch
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