Extra Extra read all about it - Preupgrade released....

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:00:58PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 19:59 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > 
> > Meaning no denigration to all those who work so hard to bring us a nice
> > operating system, if Fedora is in many ways a testing ground for RH,
> > which is more of a server O/S, I don't know too many sysadmins who are
> > going to rely on a GUI only tool for upgrading a bunch of headless
> > servers. 
> > 
> 
> Actually, it was originally, just a cli. Then we wanted to spend some
> time on the gui and that was done. Then we got sidetracked and never got
> back to the cli part.
> 
> preupgrade is ver 0.9 right now. Before we hit ver 1.0 the cli bits will
> work again. Right now they need a few hours of attention to check over
> what it should be doing. I just haven't had the time to devote to
> correcting it.

Thank you for the clarification.  Regardless of whether it works
perfectly at this time or not, I think it will become an extremely useful
tool.  

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