Bob Shaffer ][ wrote:
Are you telling me that "yum update" and "yum upgrade" will completely
upgrade everything? I've never used the "upgrade" option thinking it was
synonym for "update" in that context. If I can actually use yum to
upgrade my system to FC2, that might be what I'll do.
Err, that was a mistype there. It's apt where you have to "update", then "upgrade". WIth yum, "update" will do it all.
But yes, after FC2 is released you *should* be able to point your "/etc/yum.conf" file at a FC2 repository (it's currently pointed at a FC1 repository) and issue "yum update"...and after many minutes of churning (and probably a reboot) you should be running what is basically a FC2 system.
Because of the larger changes that occur between releases (relocated config files, software compiled with different support, wide-scale changes like SELinux), you may have to sort out some things manually, though. I recently upgraded one of our RH9 machines here to FC1 (in prep for the RH9 EOL) using this method, and I remember a few things not quite working right, due to an RPM present in FC1 but not in RH9 not being installed...got this ironed out pretty quickly with a Google search (turns out a lot of people had the same problem I did).
Jeremy
