On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/04/06 15:24 (GMT-0500) Michael Hennebry composed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Felix Miata wrote:
How about "cloning" your F15, and upgrading that to F16 with latest fixes
with Yum?
I suppose I could clone my F15 by copying its partition,
but I thought that yum could only upgrade package versions,
not fedora versions.
man yum seems to concur.
If it does, it's not something I ever noticed. It's not uncommon for man
pages to be in need of update. Updating versions via package manager I've
done more than a few times on Fedora, routinely on openSUSE.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade
Verrrry interesting.
It seems that yum doesn't know about it either.
So far as yum is concerned, it's just installing another boring package.
I just hope that this mechanism doesn't hit the same wall.
Just be sure that the first thing done after cloning is ensuring UUID and
volume label on copy and clone do not match, and that on the clone fstab and
Grub's menu are matched to the clone's location. Also, a typical cloning
process does not clone Grub. That invariably must be done separately. Failing
the fstab & Grub menu post-cloning steps would almost surely result in damage
to the F15 source, if not complete destruction, once is upgrade is begun.
cp /dev/sdb17 /dev/sdb27
wouldn't get the first sector of the partition?
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