Bug 248802

Summary:	RFE - yum distro upgrade
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alan Macdonald <alan.macdonald>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Alan Macdonald 2007-07-18 21:22:39 UTC

Description of problem:  It would be excellent if yum had an option added to it
to automatically upgrade the distro e.g. I currently run FC6 and I could upgrade
to F7 by looking online for how to change my configuration files manually, but
if I could pass a "distro-upgrade" flag to yum and it automatically downloaded
the configuration for me and upgraded, that would be quite a bit more user friendly.


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Comment 1 Will Woods 2007-07-18 21:30:00 UTC

You can already do this by downloading the new fedora-release RPM and then doing
a 'yum upgrade'.

But please note: this is a very bad idea. You will be upgrading a live system
while running the wrong kernel version. There are loads and loads of things that
can go horribly wrong with this. 

The only way to sanely handle upgrades is to boot into the new kernel,
preferably running from RAM or a LiveCD, and *then* perform the upgrade.

Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2007-08-03 16:10:31 UTC

closing this as worksforme - but we're working on a better way to do what wwoods
suggested in his last comment