Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:32 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:31 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> > Due to these installer problems we're probably not going to be able to
>> > have an official PowerPC release for Fedora 15, but the goal is to
>> > definitely get it done for Fedora 16.
>>
>> Am I interpreting this right that this effctively means we will have
>> to run a new installation on PPC machines currently runninc F12?
>
> Well, if you want to do a yum update, you don't *need* the installer
> initrd to work :)
>
> There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to update to the F15
> packages even without an installer, surely?

Aside from the normal hiccups associated with doing yum updates?  I'd
be hesitant to suggest doing a yum update from f12 -> f15.  That is
quite a gap, and the associated Provides/Obsoletes might not be able
to account for it all.

If one is determined enough it might work though.

josh