another upgrade, another disaster

[Corey Richardson]

On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:42:30 -0400
Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Basically the same kind of failure as the last several times I did
> updates. This time f16->f17.  Used preupgrade.
> 

I've heard nothing but bad things about preupgrade from lots of people,
and I've heard the developers either never hear about it, ignore it, or
don't care. I tried a preupgrade and it half-succeeded, I had to fix
the initramfs and a few other things afterwards though. IMO, it isn't
worth the pain.

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Corey Richardson