[RFE] Re: SV: [Yum] Fedora Core upgrade

[Garrick Staples]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:24:42PM +0100, Uwe Kubosch alleged:
> > How does that work exactly ??
> >
> > I tried 'yum upgrade' but it only did the usual 1 or 2 packages with
> > minor updates.
> 
> You need to switch your repositories in /etc/yum.conf, then _manually_
> install the fedora-release 2 rpm.  Then do yum upgrade.
> 
> Is there a faq or howto for this?  Or even a feature in yum to do this soon?
> Fedore promises releases about 3 times a year, so upgrading is a rather
> frequent event.

A command line arg to override the version of fedora-release would be
handy.

yum --release 2 update postgres
yum --release 2 upgrade

-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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