Re: Upgrade to FC4 final?

[Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
> > I upgraded from RH8 to FC1 and I still find some issues on my machine 
> > from this.
>
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> Robin-
>
> Could it be that your upgrade skipped a major version number? I'm not 
> trying to be a troll, just curious.
> It would seem to me that going from a final release candidate to a 
> release version should not require a full install.
> If that's the case, then something needs to be addressed with the 
> current update mechanism.I'm not a programmer but I pride myself in the 
> fact that I can usually grind out a solution to whatever's presesnted to 
> me. If I do find something useful, that pearl of wisdom will be passed 
> on. The only issue i can see is that if someone installed FC3test 3 and 
> continually updated through yum, at this point their system is already 
> tracking FC5-devel. What would indicate to me that I can stop tracking 
> devel and "put the brakes on" to a release version? I guess that should 
> have been my initial question.
>
> If continual discussion of this issue is beating a dead horse, please 
> let me know and I'll drop the issue. I'm relatively new to the list and 
> to Fedora so I don't know what is proper netiquette for this list
>
> Dan Gonzalez

I did miss the RH9 so this is an issue.  The comment from one of the 
sysadmins was to do a clean install.  He had gone the version to 
version upgrade.  This was stated just last week.

Previous discussions on upgrading versus clean install has always 
seemed to end in doing a clean install.  Even when moving from test to 
release.  It can be searched in the archives.  If I remember 
correctly, there may be some residue code or errors from previous bug 
fixes that may not be properly dealt with.


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Robin Laing