[plug] Upgrade fc4 to fc6

[Ian Kent]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:59 +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:45 +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> > On 4/26/07, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> >         Hi all,
> >         
> >         I recently tried to update a friends fc4 server (neglected in
> >         the update
> >         department for quite some time).  The primary aim was to get
> >         it to fc6.
> >         
> 
> <big snip>
> 
> > 
> > If you used yum to update, then no it's not apt and the yum upgrade
> > path is difficult and unsupported. There's a page at
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq for general help and
> > pitfalls.
> > 
> > But basically for Debian-ers don't assume yum is a drop in replacement
> > for apt. The supported upgrade path is with a CD/DVD upgrade.
> > 
> > However, I have done FC4 yum upgrades successfully before so it's not
> > impossible.. 
> > 
> > Tomasz
> 
> Ouch!  My mistake was to assume fcX would do live upgrades.  To be
> honest, I'm a bit gobsmacked it doesn't.  Perhaps I've lived in debian
> world for too long.  Some things just get taken for granted after a
> while.  Is the live upgrade capabilities of debian derived distros
> something unique or do any non deb based systems do live upgrades also?

Why don't you log a bug against FC6 and find out why this doesn't work!
If you do add me (ikent at redhat.com) to the CC list, I'd like to know
what response you get.

Ian