On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 14:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > Also, this machine hasn't seen a "full upgrade" ever since an initial > > Fedora install (years ago), but had been updated/upgraded using > > networked command-line yum/apt updates/upgrades. > > Not related to this topic but how well has these upgrades work for you? It's the way I've been installing Fedora on all of my machines for years. Sometimes it had worked smoothly, sometimes it hasn't. FC6->FC7 upgrades using yum/apt and package-cleanup worked comparatively smoothly. Other upgrades before had been a PITA (Esp. upgrading FC5->FC6 had been a real disaster.) The only major difference between using this procedure on i586s in comparison to better cpus is * Tightness on resources occasionally hitting very badly: - RAM: yum and apt both bombed out during "upgrades" due to lack of memory. Work-around: manually install packages using rpm/yum/apt. Also critical wrt to RAM: SELinux (autolabel'ing running out of memory!): Work-around: Manually run the SELinux tools or disable SELinux. - CPU-speed: yum and apt are sloooow. "yum update" runs take in the order of hours. * Limitations of the RH-config tools (No X11 nor Gnome on this machine. IMO, Fedora lacks "usable no-X11 config tools".). Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
