FC4 --> FC5: yum update? (was: release notes for FC5T3 (web)

Beartooth NQC beartooth at adelphia.net
Fri Mar 10 14:54:27 UTC 2006


On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:28:55 +0100, Boris Glawe wrote:

> Colin Brace wrote:
>> [...] what I would really like to
>>know is whether it is possible and advisable to do the upgrade next
>>week with yum. [...]

> I'd not recommend it.
> 
> Fedora Core 5 has many basic changes. For example the X Server 
> installation is in /usr/bin now, and does not reside in /usr/X11R6/bin 
> anymore.
> 
> Such "little" details might confuse your additional non-core packages.

For those of us too clueless to download ISOs and burn them to CDs or
DVDs, is there any preferred place to get those? I've had rather
variegated experience buying Fedora media online ...

-- 
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Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : FC4; [etc]
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.






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