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

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Jan 26 14:43:24 UTC 2012


Am 25.01.2012 23:48, schrieb Peter Robinson:
> 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.

Not really true. "yum upgrade" will be supported, but it needs a little help
with a special initramfs and an additional kernel command line parameter, so
that dracut can convert your filesystem. After this filesystem conversion, yum
upgrade will work without problems.


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