Fedora 22 is here!

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 16:06 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> 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.

YMMV. In my case it was all over in 30 minutes, but I have a reasonably
fast 
machine and Internet connection. I wouldn't expect the total elapsed
time to vary much with alternative upgrade methods.

poc