Fedora 22 is here!

[Steven Stern]

On 05/26/2015 03:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 05/26/2015 12:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> IIRC yum used to be recommended before fedup came along. In any case
>>> I've just upgraded with fedup and it worked again as it has for the
>>> last 4 or 5 upgrades.
>>
>> Before there was the aptly-named fedup, there was preupgrade, which worked
>> just fine for me.  Before that, the recommended upgrade was backup,
>> reinstall and restore.  Yes, there was yum upgrade, but it was very, very
>> Not Recommended.  Now, there's also the unofficial upgrade-fedora, and I'll
>> be trying on this box Real Soon Now.
> 
> Well, my first preupgrade experience was okayish, but I was also very
> new to linux then.  However by the time preupgrade had resolved its
> issues, I had already moved on to yum.  I just find it a bit surprising
> that it is not *one of* the supported methods (meaning, QA tested),
> specially since it works so reliably and with such short downtime.
> 

If I were to add anything to the fedup documentation it would be

Start this and then go to lunch. It's gonna be a while.

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-- Steve