[CLUE-Tech] upgrading from FC1 to FC2

[Nate Duehr]

On Jul 7, 2004, at 4:07 PM, David Anselmi 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.

Debian tests that style of upgrade, Fedora does not.

If it's not possible to do a apt-get dist-upgrade and end up with a 
sane system coming from any stable release to any stable release, it's 
a Release Critical or Grave level bug in Debian.  I've never seen that 
level of dedication to online upgrades from RH/Fedora.

Not saying this to start a distro war about upgrades... it's just an 
observation.  If you need in-place upgrades, go with a distro that puts 
a higher priority on them.

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com