[CLUE-Tech] upgrading from FC1 to FC2

Greg Knaddison greg.knaddison at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 20:51:33 MDT 2004


On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:07:46 -0600, David Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking... would just changing the repository in sources.list for
> > apt from FC1 to FC2 be safe?  Is that a good way to upgrade from FC1 to
> > FC2?
> 
> That's what you would do in Debian.  If the alternative is a fresh
> install, why not try it?  You can always do the fresh install after an
> upgrade fails.  But look at the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade.

Should you decide to just go ahead and try it...you may want to follow
this advice:

http://linux.duke.edu/%7Eskvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt

It's probably worthwhile to read the http://www.fedoranews.org "tips"
and "news updates" sections from the last few weeks/months

Greg



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