FC1 -> FC2 via yum

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Fr, den 21.05.2004 schrieb Gary Stainburn um 16:27:
> 
> > I seem to remember reading on this list about being able to upgrade a headless 
> > box from FC1 to FC2 using yum.  However, I can't seem to find the post in 
> > question.
> > 
> > Could people give me their opinion on using this setup, as well as any 
> > instructions on how to do it.
> 
> > Gary Stainburn
> 
> The one who successfully did a yum dist upgrade just made a yum.conf
> which points to the FC2 repositories and the did run "yum -c
> fc2-yum.conf upgrade". Maybe it is a good suggestion to stop services,
> you do not need while processing, before you upgrade, to avoid some
> circumstances.

Fedora News posted some info on this.

http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/current.shtml
http://linux.duke.edu/%7Eskvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt

Satish