FedUp

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sun Apr 7 04:03:15 UTC 2013


Max Pyziur wrote:
> 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..."
>
I can't say that I'm worried that this hasn't been through QA, after all fedup *has*

> 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...
>>
>>


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