It would appear that on Apr 22, Pedro Fernandes Macedo did say: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > >(1) As and when Fedora-2 comes out, > >will it be possible to update Fedora-1 to Fedora-2 > >(as opposed to installing Fedora-2 from scratch)? > > > Yes.. you can do a yum update or apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade . > You only need to edit your configuration files for yum and/or apt-get. Hello, I'm thankful to Timothy for asking this question before I got around to thinking of it <grin>... I'm glad to see your answer Pedro, but would you mind giving a little more detail on what specific changes would be needed in the yum.conf file??? I'm no yum expert, but having found a good example yum.conf with several suggested mirror sites configured, and embedded comment lines advising which optional repositories might not be mutually compatible, that I've been happily using: [root@localhost jtwdyp]# yum update with simply blissful results ever since... Which brings me to another question. I am a little concerned with the packages I installed from the freshrpm sites (Such as pine, & lyx...). Whats the odds that I might miss an important update for something like pine because of there needing to be a separate repository for each core release? I'm presuming the "$releasever" variable in the repository pathnames would automatically start using the value of "2" in paths like: "http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag"; But I have no idea how long it will be before URLs like for example: "http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/2/"; will even exist. Never mind when it will contain updates for _ALL_ the packages that were listed in: "http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/1/"; -- | ? ? | | -=- -=- I'm NOT clueless... | <?> <?> But I just don't know. | ^ Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | --- J(tWdy)P | <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx> | ? ?
