Update Fedora to a new Major-Version while running

[Ryan Quinn]

Owen Taylor wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:50, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
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>>Hi *,
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>>will it be "official supported" to update from one Fedora-Core to the
>>next major Fedora-Core Version while the machine is doing it's normal
>>(server) work? Like a "rpm -F *" on a RHL8 machine in a directory with a
>>rpms of RHL9. (Does this really work? I never tried, but was told it would.)
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>
>I think the answer to this is that if people are interested in it,
>and are willing to do the necessary work of:
>
> - Testing
> - Fixing problems they find
>
>Than it can be a feature of Fedora; it's not something that, as far as
>I know, Red Hat is going to spend engineering resources on, but that
>doesn't constrain the possible features of Fedora.
>
>(rpm -Fvh * doens't really quite work, but yum, apt-rpm, etc. can make 
>a closer approximation to what the installer does on an upgrade.)
>
>Regards,
>					Owen
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Personally I have been using apt-get with RH8 and RH9 for some time now 
and have found that apt does a great job of this.  Simply add the apt 
repository for the newer version to your sources.list file and do 
"apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade".

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