New to Fedora

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Nov 19 22:25:25 UTC 2004


S. Locke Murray wrote:
>>You mentioned that all you do is change the fedora-release and do a live
>>update. Are you referring to the fedora-release file in /etc? If so, all
>>you do is change that to the current version and then do an up2date or
>>yum? Or is there another "Live Update" you are referring too?
>>
>>Thanks for the replies!!!!
>>
>>Joe
>>
> 
> There is an update functionality built into the install CD's, if thats
> what you are asking for.
> 

No, I think you need to actually update the fedora-release RPM (which 
own the /etc/fedora-release file).  Some update methods only query the 
rpm version installed rather than check the file's contents....

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Kevin J. Cummings
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