Fedora 22 is here!

[Steven Stern]

On 05/26/2015 05:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
> 

I had about 2800 packages to update, cleanup, and verify.

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-- Steve