Using yum to upgrade from fc7 to fc8
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 06:10:43 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:49 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
> The yum man page says that if yum is invoked as
> yum --obsoletes update
> it will upgrade from older distro release to next higher
> one (or I assume more recent release).
You assume wrongly. yum will update from one package version to another,
but not automatically from one distro release to another. It can be
persuaded to do so but you have to work at it, see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
poc
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