another upgrade, another disaster

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 10:37 +0200, Caterpillar wrote:

>  I am very disappointed with that, because preupgrade is the official
> supported way to upgrade Fedora versions

Strictly, no. It's *a* supported way.

Frankly, I'd prefer it if we more strongly recommended that people do
DVD/netinst upgrades. That path is less complex than preupgrade and
involves fewer moving parts; it's easier to test and easier to fix and
more likely, in general, to be working at any given point.

I'd put the possible upgrade methods in this order of
likely-to-workness:

1. netinst.iso / DVD.iso with 'updates' repo enabled
2. DVD.iso without 'updates' repo
3. yum *if you follow the instructions carefully*
4. preupgrade
5. yum by the He-Man method ('instructions are for wusses')
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