On 02/09/2014 10:48 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:45 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I just upgraded a Fedora Core (FC) 19 workstation to
>> FC20 a week ago.  It was an old Pentium 4 computer
>> I use at the customer's site.
>>
>> I used a utility from a Fedora project called Fed Up:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
>>
>> It took about an hour.  (You have to make sure FC19 is
>> all updates before it will work).
>>
>> SHOULD ALL UPDATES GO SO SMOOTHLY!  Fed Up hit it
>> out of the ball park.
>>
>> Does anyone know if SL6 to SL7 will be as seamless?
>> Or, are we looking at a full wipe and reinstall?
>>
>> I have asked Fed Up if we can have a Fed Up for RHEL
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060359
>> So, far so, good.  I have not heard a deafening *NO*
>> out of them yet.
>
> FedUp is being developed for RHEL 7:
>
> https://github.com/dashea/redhat-upgrade-tool
>
> It's also packaged in RHEL 7 as redhat-upgrade-tool.
>
> RH has announced that it'll support in-place upgrades:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/12/red-hat-announces-availability-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-beta
>
> So you have to wait for redhat-upgrade-tool to be packaged for RHEL/SL 6...
>

Hi Tom,

Very cool!  I hate having to wipe and reinstall.

The one thing I noticed about Fed Up, was that you
had to do a "yum upgrade" before running Fed Up,
or you got a bunch of key errors.

-T

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