UsrMove feature breaking "yum upgrade" upgrades from older releases to F17?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:48:27PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> So I saw a rpm update and a number of other builds today when dealing
> with various packaging bits. Checking the update [1] and reading the
> attached bug [2] I was a little shocked to find that "yum upgrade"
> between releases would be explicitly broken due to this feature.
> 
> Yes, I know that it's not officially recommended as a means of
> upgrading and never been QAed it has been generally supported and
> expected to work [4] for as long as I can remember.
> 
> The thing that is annoying me is that this change has not been
> explicitly mentioned in the "Feature" [3], it does no appear in the
> FAQ on the feature and I don't remember it ever being bought up in the
> discussions about the feature although I admit I probably have missed
> some of the discussion. Has this side effect of the feature been
> discussed at all? Can someone point me to a thread?
> 
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/690#comment:8

https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/118

IIRC from the discussion in FPC meetings, there should be a way to make yum
upgrades work but you'd first have to boot up specially and run an initial
upgrade script:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17

If the Feature Owners have progressed to the implementing stae, I would
greatly appreciate them updating that page with the actual step-by-step to
perform the upgrade (which will also allow people to test that things work).

I also agree with your point that this discussion should be reflected on the
Feature page (Since the Feature page is where marketing material is taken
from).  Could that be updated as well?

-Toshio
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