[fedora-arm] Upgrading ARM system from F20 to F21 via yum?

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 14:02:43 UTC 2015


>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> Okay, here's a stupid question: Can one upgrade an ARM box (Wandboard,
>>> in my case) from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 using yum?  The standard Fedora
>>> pages have an empty "ARM" section so it's unclear if there are just no
>>> issues or if nobody has tested it.
>>
>> I've done it 100s of times! There is no ARM section because it's and
>> architecture agnostic process. Just use:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_20_-.3E_Fedora_21
>
> I wasn't sure if, e.g., I needed to update uboot as well?

You don't "need" to, if it boots it boots. If you wish to (for example
sunxi users would probably like console on HDMI) you can just dd it
out from the running OS  for the appropriate device and reboot.

Peter


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