yum upgrade

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sat May 13 21:45:08 UTC 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 15:05, Kam Leo wrote:
>   
>> On 5/13/06, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>     I decided I better upgrade my Fedora Core 4 since it will soon be
>>> EOL, whatever that is. So It's busy now and it told me this:
>>>
>>> Install      6 Package(s)
>>> Update     285 Package(s)
>>> Remove       0 Package(s)
>>> Total download size: 525 M
>>> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>>>
>>> So my Linux gets 1/2 a gig bigger which is no problem. But it will be
>>> doing this for another 6 hours!
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>       
>> Live and learn. A fresh install is faster.
>>     
> 	Yes I was going to say that I have a fresh install as of yesterday! But it needed a yum fix right out of the box.
>   

> But it won't get you an up to date FC4.  Normally you would
> do the updates over a period of many months so it wouldn't
> seem so bad.  The bad part is living with the bugs from
> a new version before the fixes are out.
>
>   
    Yes and it has me thinking I want to backup my WHOLE system. This is 
because I do not want to have to redo this upgrade thing. I just checked 
and the whole thing is less than 10 GB. So I will back the whole thing 
up to my external 10 GB hard drive.


Karl




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