Restarting fedup

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 07:03 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:09:04 -0430
> Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > So I decided to try fedup using the network install option. Spent
> > most of the day downloading over 2700 packages (I have a whole
> > 1Mbps link, woohoo), rebooted, selected the System Upgrade option,
> > then sat watching the Fedora logo fade in, fade out, fade in , fade
> > out, ... with no sign that any progress was being made. Is this
> > right?
> 
> currentl yes,
> try upgrade from telinit 3, with rhgb, quite  removed
> (or their modern equivs).
> 
> 
> > 
> > How can I avoid wasting even more hours on this? Is there no way to
> > tell fedup where to look for the new packages other than the
> > network or an ISO file?
> > 
> I don't believe so at the moment.
> no man page being available, only "fedup-cli --help"

I noticed that. Also, the fedup page says that documentation is
incomplete. I would have hoped for this to be fixed before large numbers
of people tried to use fedup, which is after all the recommended way of
upgrading F17, but as I'm not a tester I guess I just have to suck it
up.

> Unless move the downloaded files to the side.
> Use createrepo to make a local  repo.
> then:
> --repourl REPO=URL   add a repo named REPO at the given URL
> as part of a network update?

Maybe I'll try that, thanks.

poc