FedUp

[Max Pyziur]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Phil Dobbin wrote:

> On 04/06/2013 03:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> On 04/06/2013 03:05 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>>> Hi, all.
>>>
>>> I've been away for some weeks & am now back so I'm looking at
>>> possibilities for upgrading 17 -> 18 seeing as 17 will be EOL in around
>>> eight to ten weeks.
>>>
>>> After the initial problems with FedUp, I read last night over on
>>> Bugzilla about its progress & the latest testing (which looks like it's
>>> going to go stable next week) is looking pretty solid.
>>>
>>> So the question is, is everybody been happy with the upgrade process via
>>> FedUp lately?
>>
>> No. I gave up on it after it failed miserably on a couple of test
>> upgrades in the early phases of f18. May-be it has seen improvements
>> since then, but I didn't look back at it, since then, because I found
>> the procedures outlined on
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18

Specifically at this link, there's a link to a  wonderful  script
which does the tedious work of getting you from F17-> F18:
https://github.com/xsuchy/fedora-upgrade

It's in the fine-print there beginning with the words "A small script..."

MP


>> so far worked reliably.
>
> Thanks to everybody for their answers.
>
> Just for the sake of reporting any findings to Bugzilla, I'll attempt
> another upgrade via FedUp in a VM but I think I'll upgrade the machine
> in question using yum.
>
> It's a shame. I went from 12 sequentially through to 17 using preupgrade
> without a single hitch.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Phil...
>
>