[ATrpms-users] How much longer will FC7 be supported

[David Rees]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Jos Hoekstra <joshoekstra at gmx.net> wrote:
> David Rees schreef op 19-5-2008 8:35:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That's the precise reason I moved to CentOS 5 instead. You aren't
>>> force to do a major upgrade every 6 months.
>>
>> Technically, you only have to upgrade every other release, which means
>> every year or so. That's the cost of getting bleeding edge software.
>
> I wonder if people have good experiences with using preupgrade from F8
> to F9, that's a road that looks attractive to me but since it seems to
> be the first 'online' upgrade for Fedora I'm a bit scared of using it.

I've done online upgrades using yum of Fedora since before Fedora was
even around. Meaning I've upgraded some systems from RedHat to Fedora
without any issue.

You do have to be comfortable with resolving dependency issues, though.

I haven't tried any upgrades from F8 to F9 using preupgrade yet, but I
will be using it for my next F8 to F9 upgrade.

-Dave