On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:27 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Behdad Esfahbod <behdad <at> behdad.org> writes: > >> The major problem Wikipedia faced seems to me more being that > >> Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is not really upgradeable, whereas Debian/Ubuntu handled > >> upgrades quite nicely. *That* seems to be a major weakness of us. > > > > The same "apt-get dist-upgrade" which works on Debian/Ubuntu just works here > > too (with apt-rpm - I've done several upgrades to the next Fedora release that > > way), as does yum (which is better supported and nowadays also more reliable). > > And don't forget that Anaconda also supports upgrades (for RHEL, "upgrade" > > or "upgradeany" is your friend; you can even switch from RHEL/CentOS to Fedora > > with upgradeany (the opposite will only work properly if your Fedora is > > completely outdated though)). > > You certainly "can", but does it "work"? > It really depends on the package set you've got. If you're talking about a server w/o an infinite set of pkgs installed, sure, it's doable. If you're talking about an ornate and baroque pkg selection on a server which does a bazillion things, no, it won't be a clean process. notably, it won't be clean on ANY distro. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
