Thanks Satish, You've answered my questions! james > > > On Sat, 22 May 2004, James Marcinek wrote: > >> I wasn't sure if yum was able to upgrade to FC2 (but I was hoping)? Does >> the yum upgrade command accomplish this? > > FC1 -> FC2 is a major change. Using yum to do the update is not > recommended. However check out the instructions (for upgrading with > yum and other useful info) form the following link. > > http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/issue12.shtml >> >> I was hoping to use yum for this and builds and upgrades though. If it >> comes down to doing another system install/upgrade like any other (ie >> redhat 8 to redhat 9) then it will still serve the purpose. However, >> will >> the updates (ie core 1 updates) still contain the latest rpm fixes or >> will >> I have to upgrade every release to get them? >> >> My ultimate goal is to accomplish the following: >> >> Keep a build repository ( for network installs & upgrades) >> Keep update repository for patches >> >> I want to use the yum in a similar fashion as up2date. Since I am not >> only >> new to yum but the Fedora community I was not sure if Core updates were >> kept updated with fixes even after a new core was released... > > > I'll just take FC1->FC2 upgrade stuff off this discussion its a > separate topic. Each release has an End of Life (check > http://fedora.redhat.com and http://fedoralegacy.org) > > Just like RH8/RHL9 had updates - FC1 has updates - and FC2 has > updates. Check the default yum.conf for listings for the install > repositories & update repositories. > > Looks like you plan to have both FC1 installed machines and FC2 > installed machines on your network. You could maintain local > repositories for both releases (including the updates). > > However you should configure the yum.conf on FC1 to point to FC1 > release & updates repos (not FC2 repo) > > Satish > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
