<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" target="_blank">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Andrew Dahl:<br><div>
<br>> Oh nice!<br>
><br>> I used to forgo preupgrade and just manually do it through yum. (point > to<br>
> new repos, install the latest release, yum, rpm, and then do a yum<br>
> update... wait an eternity and reboot.) I only used preupgrade... maybe<br>
> twice (~3 years ago) and wasn't satisfied with it. Sounds like fedup <br>> fixes what dissatisfied me though.<br>
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> I think I'll go ahead with fedup tonight on my work laptop to check it out.<br>
> Thanks for the tip, Kathryn!<br>
</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I wound up getting a number of kernel panics on a server that</div><div>I had used fedup on. I tried a few things like yum distro-sync</div>
<div>to remedy things, but they didn't help. So I ended up doing a </div><div>fresh install of Fedora 18 and that has lasted longer now </div><div>without a crash than the version with fedup. I wouldn't </div><div>
recommend fedup at this point.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Brian Wood</div><div>Ebenezer Enterprises -- we write code and we write code good.</div><div><a href="http://webEbenezer.net">http://webEbenezer.net</a> 651 251-9384</div>
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