from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade Seth Vidal: However, in a huge number of the cases a yum upgrade worked fine for updating your distro. I've been updating my laptop for quite some time that way, lots of people have. Will Woods: Live upgrades are kind of crazy. It's a frequently-requested feature, especially from people coming from Ubuntu or Debian: "Why doesn't Fedora have 'apt-get dist-upgrade'! It's so simple and easy!" Well, it's actually not that simple *or* easy. Have you actually read the 20 pages of directions for preparing for an upgrade[1] ? Or the 11-page-long list of potential problems with performing such an upgrade[2] ? Yum upgrades use your (now old and out-of-date) yum, rpm libraries, kernel, etc. to perform the upgrade. And they do it on a running system! All sorts of weird things can happen when you upgrade the entire system while it's running. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
