recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

[Martín Marqués]

El día 4 de marzo de 2012 09:07, Martín Marqués
<martin.marques at gmail.com> escribió:
> 2012/3/2 Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
>> On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300
>> Martín Marqués <martin.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That's all I want (what's in the subject).
>>>
>>> I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I
>>> have /var on another partition.
>>
>> Preupgrade randomly fails anyway. Its great when it works but it's a bit
>> of a russian roulette experience.
>>
>> 1. Make a backup
>>
>> 2. Check your backup
>>
>> 3. Install the fedora-release-* rpms from F16
>
> I found out that sometimes you have to do a "yum clean metadata" after
> installing the release packages. Else, yum thinks he's still with the
> old version (15 in this case).
>
> I'm going to try it this way. haven't done it since F2 -> F3, so let's
> see how it goes.

Just ran yum upgrade --downloadonly, and saw that yum wants to install
a bunch of i686 packages, even though I don't have any packages with
that arch (all x86_64 or noarch).

preupgrade was doing the same.

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