Upgrade to FC4 final?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 6/10/05, David Kewley <kewley at gps.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Jeff gave a nice long reply on this, which I didn't totally
> understand. :)  I know enough about the yum/rpm/update/upgrade process
> to do it on my own & handle unexpected outcomes as they crop up; I'll
> not be following Jeff's guide, personally.

I don't follow that guide either.. for system I'm actually going to
use.  It is however the best way I know to catelog problems that other
more foolishly brave souls run into on the attempt.  So when i see
them complaining in public channels about it, casting stones and
demanding help, I know with high confidence that they have attempted
to do the live test to final upgrade and i lecture them accordingly.
Not that you are going to be one of those people.  I absolutely don't
recommend doing live upgrades across the test to final release
boundary...ever.  But if I can't prevent someone from attempting it,
at least I can do is help them try to avoid problems.

> Regarding .rpmnew or .rpmsave files, I generally check those *whenever*
> I update rpms, not just when I update from a last test version to an
> actual final release.

I really would like this problem solved in a more general way. I don't
know of any way that the common self-adminning hobbiest/home user is
going to know about the rpmnew/rpmsave files at all.  There is no
centralized way of being made aware of the creation of these files nor
instructions on how to deal with them.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158575

-jef