RH9 to Fedora migration

[Justin Georgeson]

Martin Sturm wrote:
> I've read somewhere that Up2date is not meant for upgrade between
> different versions of a distro, similar to apt-get of Debian. So I
> presume this is not a recommended way of installing Fedora on a RH9
> machine. One of the main problems I think is the fact that up2date
> standard is only capable of upgrading packages which are already
> installed on the system, and has not the ability to automatically add
> packages to the existing installtion. So for example the graphical
> boot-program and OpenOffice 1.1 cannot be installed by up2date
> automatically. 

actually up2date has --upgrade-to-release, which is a functional 
equivalent of apt-get dist-upgrade. I'm not sure if it will uninstall 
packages which have been removed between releases or what, but it's 
there. And it's not documented AFAIK. After getting to FC, up2date even 
supports yum and apt repositories!