Re: Upgrade advice

2015-11-06 Thread Chris Murphy
For the OP. I think this is unsupportable because Fedora 17, 18, 19, 20 aren't supported. And as mentioned, one of those moved from preupgrade to fedup, and fedup is fundamentally flawed which is why it's going away in Fedora 23. It's sufficiently fundamentally flawed in the edge case scenario

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system > and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications > that are being used. > > Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two > things that are preventing me from successfully

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-11-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/02/2015 02:47 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I think I'm going to just bite the bullet and do a fresh install while preserving /home, I recommend to also backup /etc. Otherwise you'd have additional efforts with restoring passwd/accounts, ssl-keys, etc. I'll have to look through the current

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-11-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system > and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications > that are being used. Packages don't touch /home, so all that would be needed is to keep

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-11-02 Thread birger
Since i have been running on btrfs for some time now i have the option to install to a fresh root subvolume, while reusing the existing swap and home. When i am certain i have everything set up i can delete the old root subvolume. No repartitioning needed. 2. nov. 2015 1.13 p.m. skrev Michael

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-10-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/30/2015 12:12 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" wrote: I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications that are being used. The

Upgrade advice

2015-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications that are being used. Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two things that are preventing me from successfully running fedup

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-10-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" wrote: > I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system > and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications > that are being used. The recommendation is to go through successive

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-10-30 Thread Jack Craig
just this week, i moved from f17 -> f21. i found most config stuff under /etc for host and all /home/jackc for the rest. i slammed these to an offline drive, copying homdir back after the os was ready. naturally, YMMV... On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra <

Re: Upgrade advice

2015-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" wrote: > >> I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora >> system >> and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications >> that are being used. > > The recommendation is to go through