I can't comment on UsrMove because I'm quite unfamiliar with it, but I did manage to upgrade from f17 to f18 using the totally unsupported yum update --releasever --enablerepo="*testing" --nogpgcheck method. <br>
<br>Computer booted and everything's exactly as it used to (Though I did have to remove some packages like Calibre because of file conflicts, no big deal). <br><br>I did it on a live system, too. The only thing that failed during that time was postgres (Which managed to stay borked after it was done and f18 booted, the pg_upgrade method didn't work properly) but other than that and a much more responsive KDE, I can't see any side effects to this method. <br>
<br>YMMV, <br>-Nushio<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Roberto Ragusa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@robertoragusa.it" target="_blank">mail@robertoragusa.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 11/09/2012 10:19 AM, drago01 wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Miroslav Suchý <<a href="mailto:msuchy@redhat.com">msuchy@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On 11/08/2012 03:10 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hmm, I now see there is a "set -e" at the beginning.<br>
>>> Still a little scary.:-)<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Scary is only the idea. And only because we are not used to do rolling<br>
>> upgrades. Ask somebody from Debian experiance if this is scary ;)<br>
><br>
> There are some upgrade tasks that you simply cannot do from within a<br>
> running system (ex: usermove).<br>
<br>
</div>Serious question: why usrmove is not doable?<br>
If you have all the dirs in your path, and move executable files from one<br>
place to another, why should this fail?<br>
<br>
I managed to do a 32 bit -> 64 bit transition (you know, the "absolutely<br>
unsupported" upgrade) on a system which was running an entire KDE session.<br>
My upgrade commands (rpm, yum, bash, everything else) started 32 bit,<br>
then were mixed, then ended to be 64 bit.<br>
Usrmove appears simpler. Am I missing something?<br>
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