Getting to F18
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Sat Dec 15 17:18:00 UTC 2012
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:53:56 -0500,
"Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 12/15/2012 09:07 AM, Tim wrote:
>>On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 13:08 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>>preupgrade is going away in f18.
>>>It's being replaced by fedup.
>>>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
>>Sounds like an April 1st gag.
>>
>>Yes, I did look at the page.
>>
>So.....according to the site, there's a chance of a "middle-man"
>attacking your system when you use fedup?....so then what's the
>alternative? I would hate to implement something new and have it
>wreck my PC. Was this also th case with preupgrade and Fedora
>17?....I just find it weird that something like this wouldn't have
>been dealt with BEFORE implementation of a new way of doing things...
Unless you think you have a chance of being singled out by a goverment
or if you don't trust some of the people/machines on your local network,
this isn't a significant risk.
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