14 Nov
2006
14 Nov
'06
11:17 p.m.
Forest Bond wrote:
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Brad Fuller
wrote:
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
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).