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

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Jan 26 08:31:16 UTC 2012


Greg wrote:
> i don't have any problems downloading a DvD, or a LiveCD

Live CDs cannot be used to upgrade existing systems.

As for the DVD, it does not include the updates repository when doing 
upgrades (you can only add additional repositories for fresh installations), 
which means the process is completely broken due to the inevitable upgrade 
path issues. (You have to run "yum update" after the DVD upgrade to fix 
these, and that's if yum isn't affected by the upgrade path issues, which it 
sometimes is, e.g. it was for Fedora 11.) As I've already stated multiple 
times, the DVD MUST be fixed to include the updates repository for upgrades 
(and yes, that means offline upgrades are not possible, they're just not 
supportable; and yes, if Anaconda still doesn't support any networking other 
than basic wired Ethernet, that needs to be fixed, too); as is, DVD upgrades 
are totally unsupportable.

        Kevin Kofler



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