[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Fri Oct 10 23:27:39 UTC 2008
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 completely outdated though)).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"?
behdad
> Kevin Kofler
>
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