going to F19 using fedora-upgrade

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 05/29/2013 01:37 PM, Karel Volný wrote:
> just FTR, yesterday I've tried to upgrade my laptop to F19.
>
> I've chosen to use fedora-upgrade.
>
> Note that I've run that in console, and I logged out from KDE a few minutes
> after finishing the download, just when I noticed higher disc activity
> indicating that yum started installing new packages.
>
> This phase took more than two hours ... um, I guess we really need to speed up
> yum/rpm/underlying filesystem, if a clean F17 install on the same machine took
> less than 20 minutes :-/

Coincidently I upgraded my workstation F19beta today as well. Of course 
using fedora-upgrade too. It took even longer (3 hours at least). But I 
was able to work all the time. I run the fedora-upgrade in screen(1), so 
I started in GUI and in case the session manager will crash I can 
"screen -r" on console and continue there. But that was not even needed 
and I was able to work in GUI all the time.
The actual time I was forced to spend on upgrade was 15 minutes 
resolving rpmnew and rpmsave files and one minute on reboot.

> Great job, Mirek (and all the packagers making sure there are no troubles with
> updating their packages)!

Thanks for the feedback.

-- 
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Systems Management Engineering