Is a yum upgrade worth it?

[ProbablyX]

Hey everyone

How are you doing the F7 -> 8 upgrade? Is a yum/dvd upgrade worh it or should i back my stuff up and format the entire hdd? (alt. keeping /home)

[wdgiles]

depends on how much your time is worth. Personal method=
1 Back up my stuff (First and always when considering an upgrade)
2 Try Yum to see what happens
3 Install fresh (if) or (after) that fails.

[KKJensen]

I didn't realize you could upgrade like that with yum! I've got my machine hanging at the beginning of the install (at /sbin/loader stage).

Is this just "yum update"? Nothing else?

If so I might just put F7 back on and upgrade from there.

Thanks!

[leadgolem]

Not quite, it'syum upgradeThat will change the version number. Also, make sure you pull compiz/beryl before you try.

[KKJensen]

I finally got the error figured out.

Thanks for the info though...I didn't realize yum could do it.

[ProbablyX]

This is how I did it (and it works!):
For x86_64:
rpm -Uvh ftp://falkor.skane.se/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm

For i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://falkor.skane.se/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm

If you use LIVNA packages such as nvidia drivers, also do this:
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm (This will update your livna for Fedora 7 pkgs)


This is for x86_64 systems, skip this if youre on a i386 system!

Due to some bug, you must remove a few i386 packages to be able to update:

yum remove dbus.i386 compiz exiv2.i386

if you now get an error about dependencies, Ive heard that some people have needed to
yum remove expat.i386, however I did not have to do this


Now just do a
yum update

This will take __time__ if yum downloads all packages and then encounters an error, dont panic! It wont redownload all packages again if you run yum update a second time. It will keep the ones its already downloaded. It will just take like 2-5 minutes for it to find them.

Good luck!