On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:27 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad <at> behdad.org> writes:
>> The major problem Wikipedia faced seems to me more being that
>> Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is not really upgradeable, whereas Debian/Ubuntu handled
>> upgrades quite nicely. *That* seems to be a major weakness of us.
>
> The same "apt-get dist-upgrade" which works on Debian/Ubuntu just works
here
> too (with apt-rpm - I've done several upgrades to the next Fedora release that
> way), as does yum (which is better supported and nowadays also more reliable).
> And don't forget that Anaconda also supports upgrades (for RHEL,
"upgrade"
> or "upgradeany" is your friend; you can even switch from RHEL/CentOS to
Fedora
> with upgradeany (the opposite will only work properly if your Fedora is
> completely outdated though)).
You certainly "can", but does it "work"?
It really depends on the package set you've got.
If you're talking about a server w/o an infinite set of pkgs installed,
sure, it's doable.
If you're talking about an ornate and baroque pkg selection on a server
which does a bazillion things, no, it won't be a clean process. notably,
it won't be clean on ANY distro.
-sv