Am 24.01.2013 13:00, schrieb Frank Murphy:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:10:24 -0500 Temlakos temlakos@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to sort out the rumors I've heard. Among other things: that using a Live Spin CD on an existing Fedora system is not safe, and will destroy all data.
Live CD\DVD are not designed for upgrading. Good for testing h\w, rescue, min *DE install
What is the safest way to upgrade an existing system from F17->F18?
yum update --releasever=18 from a (level 3 boot) Have done it since F13 > F14 > F15 > F16 > F17 > F18
PLEASE BE CAREFUL
"yum update --releasever=18" is NOT enough for a clean dist-upgrade so do not post it this way because you lead people follow you
you have SURELY not upgraded to F17 this way because UsrMove
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum and there you have for each jump exact instructions _________________________
"yum update" is NEVER a sane dist-upgrade
you need at least "distro-sync" because if you are doing it without at the wrong moment and have a newer version of a critical package on your system as the version you are upgrading too "distro-sync" will downgrade it while "yum --update" in the best case will not reslove deps and in the worst case leaves a incompatible version on your system and depending what package it is you can have much fun after that _________________________
also you have to follow ALL instructions from the wiki or you are running in danger that yum/rpm or whatever critical component will no longer work