Well, today is May 29, 2012 and I just completed the upgrade from Fedora 16 (Verne) to the new Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle). I used the unsupported "yum" approach to do an in in-place update. It worked just fine.
The biggest modification at the filesystem level is that these directories are now symlinks:
/bin => /usr/bin
/lib => /usr/lib
/sbin => /usr/sbin
/var/lock => /run/lock
/var/run => /run
Care must be taken to handle this rather disruptive (but ultimately for the better) change. The steps to handle this via dracut are here.
1 posted on
05/29/2012 9:14:20 AM PDT by
re_nortex
To: re_nortex; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; ...
2 posted on
05/29/2012 9:16:14 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: re_nortex
3 posted on
05/29/2012 9:17:03 AM PDT by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR: Now, More Than Ever.)
To: re_nortex
I guess the thread is not about hats making a come back
4 posted on
05/29/2012 9:59:50 AM PDT by
scottteng
(Tax government employees til they quit and find something useful to do)
To: re_nortex
I’ll be doing the same - yum in place upgrade. Just not today ;)
To: re_nortex
My webserver is still on Fedora 12. That would require a lot of upgrades.
7 posted on
05/29/2012 11:06:45 AM PDT by
FastCoyote
(I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
To: re_nortex
13 posted on
06/01/2012 1:14:45 PM PDT by
xp38
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