On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > Andrew Dahl: > > > Oh nice! > > > > I used to forgo preupgrade and just manually do it through yum. (point > > to > > new repos, install the latest release, yum, rpm, and then do a yum > > update... wait an eternity and reboot.) I only used preupgrade... maybe > > twice (~3 years ago) and wasn't satisfied with it. Sounds like fedup > > fixes what dissatisfied me though. > > > > I think I'll go ahead with fedup tonight on my work laptop to check it > out. > > Thanks for the tip, Kathryn! > > I wound up getting a number of kernel panics on a server that I had used fedup on. I tried a few things like yum distro-sync to remedy things, but they didn't help. So I ended up doing a fresh install of Fedora 18 and that has lasted longer now without a crash than the version with fedup. I wouldn't recommend fedup at this point. Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises -- we write code and we write code good. http://webEbenezer.net 651 251-9384 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130128/7916bcf1/attachment.html>