Dan Thurman wrote:
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 05:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 15:30 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
Folks,
I was a but busy and I am currently in a FC5 T3 setup, so
my question is, do I just stay in this environment, and
simply 'yum update' to get into the FC6 level or do I have
to burn any iso's and reinstall everything or what?
It's generally a good idea to do a reinstallation. If you simply run yum
update, you end up with pre-FC6 rawhide which is now boiling hot. That
you only want to do if you would prefer to continue testing.
There are days in testing where an update requires 500M of downloads,
and then something needs a new release and it happens again the next
day. You might rather your PC was a useful tool rather than forever
downloading new packages.
My advice: download FC5 and install. If you have separate partitions for
/ and /home, note down the partition information (to use during install)
and ensure all the things you want to keep are under /home .
Then reboot in single user mode, and mv /home/your-user-name to
/home/name-old or similar.
Reboot with CD/dvd for install, and ensure you choose custom
partitioning. You then need to tell the installer which partition to use
as which:
/boot +format
/ +format
/home don't format.
Then you'll have a complete FC5 install, but haven't lost any info that
was still on your disk under /home. However, the user account is created
new so that any weird stuff from the old install is avoided.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing
Otherwise, you might get the fedora-release package from one of the FC5
mirrors, make sure you have the development repositories disabled and
then run yum update.
Rahul
Hmmm... ok. Well, I ran 'yum update' just for fun but not
intending to accept the update but I was never given that
chance. It appears that it is looking for dependencies so
it bombed.
yum update indeed checks for updates -> dependencies, and only if all
dependencies can be resolved, then it asks do you want to go ahead. It
only finds out this stuff by downloading the repo information, then the
rpm headers it needs, in an iterative process until a dependency can not
be found, or it has all the bits to do a successful rpm transaction.
In this way yum / rpm protect you from what would be a bad situation !
...
Also, There is another response from poster that replied I can just
'yum update' if I wanted to continue testing but now I cannot decide
which pathway I want to take....
Take the FC5 path if you want a machine that is reliable and doesn't
take a lot of your time; see Rahul's response and look at the paragraphs
in the section: Initial Expectations
If I do not want to continue to test and go to FC5 from FC5-T3, what
exactly would I end up with?
Depends on whether you ever saw problems during the test releases
Would I (eventually) get a full production
release as if I installed it from scratch sans the stuff I installed
outside of the FC5-T3 release?
No, some testing packages might have set weird options, or have left
over binaries that could cause problems. Such an upgrade is also
considered unsupportable. If you found a bug, you would need to
reinstall a new FC5 system to ensure you don't have some previously
solved problem getting at you.
If I want to continue testing, do you suggest that I just go ahead
and do a 'yum update' but with exclusions of dependencies until
eventually I get these dependencies installed later, somehow?
If you use pup (Software Updater), you can deselect packages whose
dependencies can't be resolved (with some trial and error).
If you are still interested in testing, perhaps install FC5 and enable
the updates-testing repo, then you get advance test versions of packages
that are being updated for FC5 (usually to fix bugs, not add new
functionality). This is still a help because it allows the developers to
test the new packages on more varied hardware (yours). If you see a
problem, check the test-list and bugzilla ASAP, so that a developer can
see there is something amiss and choose to hold back on pushing the test
package into the mainstream FC5 updates.
DaveT.
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