any report of fedup f19->f20?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Dec 19 19:11:34 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 13:39 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 12:38 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 05:08 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>> The newest version of fedup available to me (not using
> >>>> updates-testing) is 0.7. ne
> >>>>
> >>>> Is someone going to push fedup version 0,8 to updates (stable) soon?
> >>>> Do I wait for that? Or enable updates-testing and run an update before
> >>>> I proceed?
> >>> It's on its way to stable updates ATM so if you wait you won't have to
> >>> wait long, but it's perfectly safe to grab it from u-t if you want to
> >>> upgrade right now.
> >> I'm not in that kind of hurry. I saw a statement about known issues
> >> with updating. The official line seems to be: fedup version 0.7 will
> >> not work, so don't try it. Either wait, or enable u-t just long enough
> >> to grab version 0.8. (And if one does try it, the new fedup needs
> >> workarounds to clean up the garbage.)
> >>
> >> Since fedora-release also is at issue (for GPG signature checking),
> >> I'll watch the system updates closely for the new fedup.
> > It went to stable for f19 last night, should be making it to mirrors by
> > now. f18 seems to be a bit behind.
> >
> >> My last experience with fedup was instructive. Plymouth ran well with
> >> it, but showed me a very small progress bar that appeared frozen for a
> >> long time. It wasn't frozen. The update ran well last time. But I
> >> probably would run it when I had to be away from it anyway. You see,
> >> in America we have a saying: "A watched teapot never boils."
> > It's an old English saying in fact :)
> 
> OK, the current version of fedup made it out, and I now have it.
> 
> But: shouldn't I also wait for fedup-dracut and fedup-plymouth-dracut to 
> update also? They're still on Version 0.7.

No, you don't need to. Those packages aren't really used on your system,
they're used to generate the special update initramfs you download from
the servers as part of the upgrade process.
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