Re: FC3 to FC4 any mirrors available?

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On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:36 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 14:05 -0500, Devon Harding wrote:
> > I'm trying to upgrade my FC3 to FC4 so I can get to FC5, but I'm
> > getting file not found during the process.  Are there any FC4 mirrors
> > still out there?
> 
> That seems a really odd desire (wanting to update through an obsolete
> release to yet another obsolete release).  And I really do mean
> obsolete, not just "yuck, that's old."  They're both totally out-of-date
> and unsupported.  There's no bug fixes, and no security fixes, unless
> you start compiling your own binaries.
> 
> I can't imagine why anybody would actually *want* to update through more
> than one old release.  Upgrading often involves trying to sort out
> incompatible changes between releases, and to go through that process
> twice over is asking for more trouble.

This is pure speculation, but maybe the OP intends to go through the
whole series FC3->FC4->FC5->FC6->F7->F8. A really bad idea IMHO, and
almost guaranteed to be more buggy than simply backing-up and installing
a fresh copy of F8.

poc


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