Am Mi, den 17.12.2003 schrieb Samuel Flory um 23:11: > Rich Reardon wrote: > > Bill Carlson wrote: > > > >> You do realize that by definition Fedora is supposed to have a new > >> Release twice a year or so? The EOL of each release would appear to be > >> 2-3 months after the next release (ie EOL for FC1 will be 2-3 months > >> after FC2 is released). EOL meaning no more errata/security fixes. > >> So, if you're using Fedora, you should already be planning on updating > >> at least every 6 months. [...] > You can use yum or apt to upgrade to the "current" release without > requiring an upgrade in the old sense of the word. I've gone from RH > 8.0 to FC 1 via apt-get, and I've used yum to upgrade from RH 9 to FC 1. > I've never actually used the upgrade proccess thru the installer. All > I do is point yum or apt-get at my local fedora and do an upgrade. > (apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get upgrade) I hope we can support this "official" in the future. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=106677277924707&w=2 (redhat search doesn't work ATM) Quoting the relevant parts: ------- List: fedora-list Subject: Re: Update Fedora to a new Major-Version while running From: Owen Taylor <otaylor () redhat ! com> Date: 2003-09-24 16:03:09 > will it be "official supported" to update from one Fedora-Core to the > next major Fedora-Core Version while the machine is doing it's normal > (server) work? [...] I think the answer to this is that if people are interested in it, and are willing to do the necessary work of: - Testing - Fixing problems they find Than it can be a feature of Fedora; it's not something that, as far as I know, Red Hat is going to spend engineering resources on, but that doesn't constrain the possible features of Fedora. [...] ------- CU thl
