F18 up to F20 -- how?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Sat Dec 14 18:32:12 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 18:28 +0000, Beartooth wrote:

> > The only 'officially recommended' upgrade method from F18 onwards is
> > fedup. The installer's upgrade mode does not exist any more. fedup is
> > essentially just a fairly thin wrapper around a 'yum update' which is
> > performed in a special systemd target. You can feed it packages from a
> > repository or from a DVD ISO, but it basically does the same thing
> > either way (you'll have more, and newer, packages available if you use
> > the repo approach).
> 
> 	Yes, thanks again. After your post and Ed Greshko's, I did the 
> first machine in question using his "fedup --net 20"; it worked fine.
>  
> 	In a senior moment beyond most, I just did it again on the same 
> machine (a Thinkpad T42). This time it got a list of non-extant groups 
> like the ones that've been posted for yum. (I haven't checked whether 
> they're identical to the list I got from yum directly, or to the one 
> posted.)

I think they do come from yum. It's on my todo list for today to try and
get to the bottom of what's going on with all these weird yum group
issues...
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