Upgrade vs Install

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Sat May 22 22:39:12 UTC 2004



Coume - Lubox.com wrote:
><snip>
> And it's like the yum upgrade, it is much more dangerous IMHO than most
> people think, I personally think that we should not be possible to do
> such upgrade through yum.
> 

I disagree. We run firewalls for schools that run on Fedora Core 1 and 
it was very simple using yum to upgrade them to Fedora Core 2. No need 
for onsite visits. Our upgrades were pretty simple since the boxes don't 
run X and we always compile our own vanilla kernels.



> It was just my 2 Euro cents
> Ludo
> 
> P.S.: I managed to convince a server owner not to upgrade is server
> through yum and do a clean install! Small victory :p
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