Fedora Core 6
Fedora Core 6
Fedora Core 6 Test 2 is out:
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1437
Which means Fedora Core 4 has gone into maintenance mode and FC1 and FC2 are end-of-life:
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1438
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1439
You will now have to get your FC4 updates from http://fedoralegacy.org/
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1437
Which means Fedora Core 4 has gone into maintenance mode and FC1 and FC2 are end-of-life:
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1438
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1439
You will now have to get your FC4 updates from http://fedoralegacy.org/
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I tried that once with Yum and it went horrible. Yum is just horrible with dependencies. It installed insanely much unneeded and conflicting packages.Master of Reality wrote:cant you do a dist-upgrade with yum or apt or smart?
With Apt I had about zero problems (I only had to reconfigure X). I did need packages from the extras repo since some packages seemed to be replaced from the main fedora repo to extras.
PS: My "apt" updated system works better at this moment than a fresh cd install using it's default yum to update everything. Yum also installed (again) more packages as on my other (apt) box using the same repos. Yum is just driving me nuts.
Yeah, this is extremely annoying to me. I have no idea what makes it take so long now where it used to take 10 minutes to do a fresh install and 15 minutes to do an upgrade. I also noticed on the CD version I don't think it's possible to install without inserting every single disk no matter how minimal of an install you are doing.worker201 wrote:The upgrade from dvd did go very smoothly. Took a very long time, but everything seems to be just fine now.
Well, that's the disadvantage of using CDs. You first download and install the actual release and next you'll still have to update those same packages again.worker201 wrote:Simple upgrade, plus update 450 packages afterwards, seemed like it took over 2 hours.
While using apt can give more problems(Not always, an other benefit is that you can update the packages from your non official repos at the same time using apt.) it will cost you a lot less bandwide.
The main difference is that doing an apt upgrade will not run all configuration tools again.worker201 wrote:In general I haven't heard good things about apt distro upgrades, which is why I continue to download the isos when there is a new release. It'd be a lot easier if I didn't wait so long before actually installing the dvd...
These are mostly X related. If you know how to do this manually, I don't see why a CD upgrade whould be less complicated.
CD upgrades are far less complicated. I have done many upgrades using apt and all of them have had some sort of problems although I was able to get things sorted out in all cases. It is a very rare occurance that doing an upgrade from a booted installation CD causes problems. There are several threads here in the Red Hat forum (I believe most of the sticky threads) where I have posted how my upgrades went via apt, what went wrong, how to fix what went wrong, etc. I have never done an upgrade from FC4->FC5 via apt so I can't say how that might go. All I can say is doing an upgrade via apt seemed to get worse as the FC releases increased (RH8->RH9 wasn't bad, FC1->FC2 wasn't bad, then it got worse from there if I recall).
Oh well... perhaps I was just lucky.
I also noticed (from your first link) that Anaconda now actually does seems to have an option for adding extra (yum-compatible) repos in FC6:
I also noticed (from your first link) that Anaconda now actually does seems to have an option for adding extra (yum-compatible) repos in FC6:
...would that make it possible to do a "net-upgrade" with anaconda using only the first CD?Notable Features of FC6 Test 2
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* Ability to install from additional yum repositories during anaconda installations and kickstarts.
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