Bug 248802 – RFE - yum distro upgrade

Bug 248802 - RFE - yum distro upgrade

Summary:	RFE - yum distro upgrade

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	yum (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
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Reported:	2007-07-18 17:22 EDT by Alan Macdonald
Modified:	2014-01-21 17:59 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2007-08-03 12:10:31 EDT
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Description Alan Macdonald 2007-07-18 17:22:39 EDT

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 17:30:00 EDT

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 12:10:31 EDT

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

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