On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:09:08AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:13:56 -0400, > Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What is involved in upgrading from one version of Fedora to the next? > > (eg from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 when F-10 becomes available) > > There are several ways to do that. The two main variants are booting off an > install image and doing an out of band upgrade or doing a yum upgrade. > The out of band upgrade is supported and the yum upgrade isn't. yum upgrades > have been getting better over time and have the advantage of being usable > while your system is up. The downside is occassionally there can be things > that can't handled by yum properly. (For example when I tried to do a yum > upgrade from FC5 to F9 the kernels were different enough that mkinitrd > wasn't loading the right modules for the updated kernel.) > > Start by looking at the release notes for F10. That should give you a heads > up about possible issues with upgrading. > > However you upgrade you'll want to use yum to look for orphans afterwards. > You'll also want to check all of the *.rpm* files in /etc to see if you > need to make config changes. > > It would probably also be a good time to run rpm -Va (though that will have > some noise) to make sure packages are properly installed. > > And another option you might not have considered is to back up your data, > do a fresh install (instead of an upgrade) and then restore your data. Thanks Very Much for the info. Actually, this last option is one I am hoping to avoid, although data backup is definitely a good thing in any case. But a quick, simple upgrade from F9 to F0 would be really nice. I've been running F9 for less than a week in parallel with OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and Fedora has already become my main system. Yum upgrades are amazingly easy so far, although I don;t yet fully understand what is going on during refresh & upgrade. I'm looking forward to upgrading to KDE 4.1. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
