I did that from 5 to 6, using the DVD ISO file (mounted as a loopback
device) as a local yum repo.
It worked quickly, since it was HD to HD. It was hairy however and as
noted in the FAQ, left things to be cleaned up after the upgrade. I was
less comfortable doing it again from 6 to 7. Figured t
FWIW, I did an in-place upgrade via Yum
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq) and it is viable -
in fact I did the upgrade+reboot remotely; R and mingw-cross both
seem to survive the upgrade.
$ rpm -qa |wc -l
2050
$ rpm -qa |grep 'fc6' |wc -l
149
$ rpm -qa |grep 'fc7' |wc -l
1295
Before up
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:58 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Marc,
>
> Thanks for the report. We had noted the release date for F7 as one of the
> milestones to take account of in scheduling 2.5.1, and thought we might
> just know an early adopter. Unfortunately the other milestone (the
> re
Marc,
Thanks for the report. We had noted the release date for F7 as one of the
milestones to take account of in scheduling 2.5.1, and thought we might
just know an early adopter. Unfortunately the other milestone (the
release of gcc 4.2.0 for MinGW has not happened on the promised date, June
