Preupgrade problem

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 12:59:15 UTC 2010


On 10/11/10 12:57, Steve Berg wrote:
> I just attempted using preupgrade on a Fedora 11 system.  It ran fine on
> the system, downloaded all the packages, set up grub.conf and all the
> other things it normally does.  I rebooted into the upgrade kernel and
> then it tells me that it can't upgrade the system because it's too old.
> You can only jump one release not two.
>
> If preupgrade is smart enough to know that limitation once the upgrade
> starts, why isn't it smart enough to warn me about that before it
> downloads and sets everything up?
>
>

Maybe it figured you would do that yourself in advance.

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Frank Murphy
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