Re: problem upgrading distro via yum - tried preupgrade ?

I had not heard of it until after i started the process of just using
yum directly, but when i get some free time to work on this again it
looks like a good option

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM, David Timms <[email protected]> wrote:
> Casey Boone wrote:
>> I am experiencing a problem in trying to upgrade a machine from fc8 to
>> fc9 via yum. What I am seeing is a lot of this:
>
> Have you heard about preupgrade ? It seems to have been recently updated:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6045
> It hasn't made updates-testing yet, but can downloaded straight from koji.
>
> The idea was to:
> - download only the required rpms to complete the upgrade {often lots
> less than a full DVD}.
> - download the boot/installer part
> - configure the boot/installer part as a grub selection
>
> When you are ready, you reboot, and the normal anaconda installer boots,
> knows it's an upgrade and performs the upgrade {with required packages
> already downloaded}.
>
> I tried earlier versions, and they succeeded OK.
>
> DaveT.
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