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

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Tue Nov 14 22:48:56 EST 2006


david wrote:
> Brad Fuller wrote:
>> 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.
>
> apt-get, Synaptic, etc all handle distro updates, too. Even kernels.
> I've updated kernels a couple of times using Synaptic.
>
> I guess you could say that Debian, in a sense, really doesn't have the
> RH/Fedora idea of "upgrades."
Yeah... kernels are no problem for me, either. It's complete distros
that's the problem. I remember one time I had instructions on how to
upgrade from FC2 to FC3 (or some lower numbered Fedora distro). I think
you were to change your repos to point to the next distro. I did that,
but it never worked well.

Has anyone upgraded FC from the repos? How well did it work?

Joe just mentioned he has upgraded using the CDROMs, but it never worked
well for me. There was always something that was hanging around that
never got updated.
What is the consensus of upgrading FC from the CDROMs? Has anyone else
upgraded successfully this way?

brad




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