[linux-audio-user] FC2->Fc3->Fc4->Fc5->FC6->FC*: it's crazy!

[Brad Fuller]

Forest Bond wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
>   
>> every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually get around to moving to
>> the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because
>> you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading"
>> Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't.
>>
>> Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems
>> unnecessary.
>>     
>
> I don't know why people tolerate this sort of thing.  Debian and Ubuntu have
> _always_ upgraded well for me.  These are projects that recognize that one of
> the most important (if not _the_ most important) responsibilty of a distribution
> is dependency management, including versioned dependencies through upgrades.
>
> I recently started maintaining a RHEL server at work, and up2date is one of the
> crudest tools I've ever seen.  It just barely does anything right at all.
>
> I guess I've just been spoiled by apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, update-manager,
> et. al... (And the package maintainers for the above-mentioned projects --
> package managers need good data to do their jobs well).
>   
Upgrading applications is easy as pie on Fedora, as long as you get the
right repos. I use Smart Manager and it's very nice, once you get it setup.

My concern is not applications, but the distro itself. If there was a
way to upgrade from FC5 to FC6 using Smart Manager, I'd try it. But, I
didn't know there was a way. I've always had to wipe the disc clean and
start over. I tried upgrading from FC3->FC4 using the CDROMs, but it
never worked quite right. I actually tried a few times. I even tried
FC4->FC5 from the CDROMs. But, always had to start from scratch.

brad