On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:40:23 -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote > Cristian Stefan wrote: > > Hi I am new to RH and i have installed RH9 and managed to update it > > with apt4rpm .So... > > The obvious question is : > > How can I manage to put some repositories to get a dist-upgrade from RH9 > > to Fedora ? > > This sort of question about apt or yum comes up a lot. And though I can > not tell how to get apt to do this...because I don't use apt. I do have > to question whether or not its WORTH upgrading to the test release this > way. > > As of now...using either apt/yum to upgrade to a new release is not > something the Fedora Core developers are making a priority to test > and make sure works. If you are able to use apt to upgrade to the > new test release, and you have problems...your bugreports might not > be useful at all...and their might be very little interest in > helping fix the problems you encounter becuase you have used an un- > supported upgrade path. > > I think..if you are going to be running the beta..and be a beta > tester..you have to be willing to follow some basic rules on expected > behavior. One of those rules have been that you are going to have to > either upgrade from a previous official release using the ISO image > based upgrade methods provided by the official installer. Or You > will be doing a fresh install using the provided methods. > > Unless something has changed recently..very recently...having apt or > yum work to do dist-upgrade like behavior is not something thats > getting a lot of Fedora Core development attention. You can > certainly try to do it, becuase both yum and apt have the ability to > do this sort of thing...but if it goes wrong...your bugs might not > be a high priority. Bug testing effort is best spent on issues > developers want tested...and to-date I haven't seen much interest > from the development side to make upgrading between releases with > apt a high priority. > > -jef"thinks the website needs Tester Guidelines, to help give > testers an indication of what the priorities are for different test releases"spaleta If I read this exchange correctly, Fedora may not be a RH 10 equivalent for those users of previous versions of RHL. Not a good sign??
