Preupgrade from F17 to F18 Branched

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 16:47 -0400, John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:
> > From: Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 
> 
> > This is probably a terrible time to try preupgrade. It gets no major
> > love until Beta, usually. If your goal is a working install of F18,
> your
> > best option at present is a yum update from F17, following the
> > directions at
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
> > Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18 . 
> 
> Oh, well that would be easier for me since it stays more in my
> familiar realm.  (Preupgrade looks neat, but my norm is fresh installs
> + puppet.)  Should this wisdom (both waiting until Beta and that link)
> be incorporated into
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Branched#Yum_update_from_previous_official_release? 

Probably not. Actually I should have written that a bit differently:
it's a *good* thing from a QA perspective that you're trying preupgrade
now and finding the bugs. We want them found early. It's only a bad
thing from the point of view that it has about 0% chance of succeeding.
=) Even if you get the preupgrade bit working, I believe newUI anaconda
does not actually implement upgrades yet, so there is no chance the
anaconda bit of the process will work.

> Nice to know, thanks.  I'm having lots of fun seeing what it takes to
> get Fedora out the door since I'm making my own derived Live spins for
> internal company use on embedded systems.  I face many of the same
> challenges. 

Cool. Let us know if you find any QA process documentation missing - I
think we cover it pretty well though :)
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