F9 ---> F11 server update with preupgrade?

Aldo Foot lunixer at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 00:38:47 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Peter Diercks<di at jls-hh.de> wrote:
> Hello List!
>
> I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a service
> provider. Access is through SSH. It is a LAMP server with moodle (an
> educational cms) as the only application. I want to upgrade to Fedora
> 11, and I need some advice as to which method to choose. Should I
>
> - use preupgrade-cli for a direct upgrade F9 to F11?
> - use preupgrade-cli for upgrading to F10 first, and then to F11?
> - avoid upgrading with preupgrade-cli at all, and do a fresh F11 install
> instead?
>
> I prefer one of the first two methods over the latter one, but I
> remember reading many complaints about preupgrade.
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An interesting note... the documentation says the preupgrade path F9->F11 is
not possible, but this bugzilla entry[1] says otherwise. Having said that, I'd
try a direct upgrade F9->F11.

[1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506750

~af




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