Using f13 rpms in f12?

Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 20:44:33 UTC 2010



M A Young wrote:
> 
> 
> If you want to update everything to fedora 13 using yum (though of course 
> the recommended way is to boot off a f13 iso image) then it should be 
> enough to download and install (by hand) the fedora-release package from 
> the f13 tree, and then run yum. If you want to pick and choose packages, 
> you could probably create some fedora 13 repo files with a bit of 
> judicious copying and editing of the files in /etc/yum.repos.d
> 
>  	Michael Young
> 
> 

Quite an interesting and relevant discussion in devel at
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-February/131303.html

Originally I was wondering if you could just update enough from devel repo
to run the f13 or f14 kernels in an otherwise unaltered f12 - but maybe this
is a bit tricky to get right?
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