PreUpgrade

[Jon Masters]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:19 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> Jon Masters pisze:
> > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:00 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> > 
> >> I did the preupgrade anyway on my last F9 box, up to F10. The box boots,
> >> however it is missing libraries
> > 
> > Also, although the release and many packages were updated to F10
> > versions, the kernel is still f9 with no sign of the F10 package.

> I suspect that the reason might be the following: f10 was released a
> good while ago, and now many f-9 packages  have higher nevr. Thus, I
> think preupgrade could benefit from a way to specify additional repos
> (as anaconda does).

That may be true as the reason, but it's hardly that unlikely someone
would want to do an F9->F10 upgrade with preupgrade. In fact, I would
say it's about to become /more/ likely as people consider it a fast way
of upgrading systems that will become obsolete when F11 is released.

Jon.