Getting to F18

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Dec 15 17:18:00 UTC 2012


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:53:56 -0500,
   "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 12/15/2012 09:07 AM, Tim wrote:
>>On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 13:08 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>>preupgrade is going away in f18.
>>>It's being replaced by fedup.
>>>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
>>Sounds like an April 1st gag.
>>
>>Yes, I did look at the page.
>>
>So.....according to the site, there's a chance of a "middle-man" 
>attacking your system when you use fedup?....so then what's the 
>alternative? I would hate to implement something new and have it 
>wreck my PC. Was this also th case with preupgrade and Fedora 
>17?....I just find it weird that something like this wouldn't have 
>been dealt with BEFORE implementation of a new way of doing things...

Unless you think you have a chance of being singled out by a goverment 
or if you don't trust some of the people/machines on your local network, 
this isn't a significant risk.


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