On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 21:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/07/2009 08:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 09:22 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > >> On Saturday 07 November 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >>> I upgraded from CentOS-5.3 to CentOS-5.4 > >>> (and earlier from CentOS-5.2 to CentOS-5.3) > >>> just by running "yum update". > >>> > >>> Why can't I upgrade to Fedora-12 like that? > >>> Is it just that the CentOS makers are cleverer...? > >>> > >> Actually, that's exactly how I upgraded to F11 from F10. Fedora noticed > >> that there was an updated version of Fedora available and asked if I wanted > >> to upgrade. I said sure, so it downloaded all the RPMs and upgraded me. > > > > Presumably you're talking about the Package Manager. yum on its own > > isn't going to ask you if you want to upgrade Fedora. > > Here it how this works: > > When there is a new release of Fedora, GNOME PackageKit or specifically > gpk-update-icon which is the update notifier prompts you to upgrade with > a notification on your desktop > > http://packagekit.org/img/gpk-distro-upgrade-notify.png > > If you agree, in Fedora, it will call preupgrade to perform the actual > upgrade. This works starting from Fedora 10 onwards. That's fine. All I was trying to establish is that asking the question isn't a function of yum as such, but of Package Kit, which uses yum to do the actual upgrade. I can't be bothered with PK so I just use preupgrade on my own (or download a DVD). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
