Using yum to upgrade from fc7 to fc8

Markus Kesaromous remotestar at live.com
Tue Apr 22 21:00:13 UTC 2008


OK. Thanx! I guess someone ought to clean up the man page :)


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> From: pocallaghan at gmail.com
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:35:18 -0430
> Subject: RE: Using yum to upgrade from fc7 to fc8
> 
> You are reading too much into the man page (or the man page is poorly
> written). "... better for distro-version changes" does not equate to
> "... can implement distro version changes without any help".
> 
> poc
> 
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:40 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
>> You mean the man page is in error? It says:
>> 
>>               If  the  --obsoletes  flag  is  present yum will include package
>>               obsoletes in its calculations - this makes it  better  for  dis-
>>               tro-version  changes,  for example: upgrading from somelinux 8.0
>>               to somelinux 9.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> From: pocallaghan at gmail.com
>>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:40:43 -0430
>>> Subject: Re: Using yum to upgrade from fc7 to fc8
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:49 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
>>>> The yum man page says that if yum is invoked as
>>>> yum --obsoletes update
>>>> it will upgrade from older distro release to next higher
>>>> one (or I assume more recent release).
>>> 
>>> You assume wrongly. yum will update from one package version to another,
>>> but not automatically from one distro release to another. It can be
>>> persuaded to do so but you have to work at it, see:
>>> 
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>>> 
>>> poc
>>> 
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