F8 Upgrade Question

[ShareDora]

I'm about to upgrade to F8 from F7. How exactly does the upgrade process work? Will it keep my current settings and just install new packages or will it wipe, say, my /home/user directory?

[Seve]

Hello:
When you installed F7 did you use LVM or did you create a custom partition layout ?

Seve

[ShareDora]

I used the default LVM layout.

[Seve]

Hello:
If you choose to do an upgrade versus a fresh install, then according to the Installation Guide Chapter 8. Upgrading an Existing System the data in your home directory should not be touched.

However you proceed you should first back up your data which you do not want to loose.

Seve

[brr872002]

Originally Posted by ShareDora

I'm about to upgrade to F8 from F7. How exactly does the upgrade process work? Will it keep my current settings and just install new packages or will it wipe, say, my /home/user directory?

updated my F7 i386 install without to much trouble , I had to remove a few orphans first to sort out unfulfilled deps i.e compiz-fusion , after updating I recommend checking for problems with these commands

Code:

yum install yum-utils package-cleanup --problems

if there are any you will need to manually satisfy any missing deps

Code:

package-cleanup --dupes

if you have any run

Code:

package-cleanup --cleandupes

Note :Courtesy leigh123@linux  http://forums.fedoraforum.org/member.php?u=78273

mv /etc/yum.repos.d/*.*        /tmp

#rpm -UvhF  http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -UvhF http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

Now run

yum upgrade

check list of failed dependecies
remove problem packages manually

again run
yum upgrade

Note: Always make backup of data and configuration files