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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Upgrading to Fedora 10

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Upgrading to Fedora 10
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Dec 10, 2008
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Upgrading to Fedora 10

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Upgrading to Fedora 10

by eWEEK Labs


In-Place Upgrades

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Fedora picked up the capacity for conducting in-place upgrades (without the hit-or-miss results of previous in-place upgrade workarounds) during the Fedora 9 release. The 9-to-10 upgrade marked our first exposure to the tool.


Pick Your Poison

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The preupgrade tool, which we installed by typing “yum install preupgrade” into a terminal, offered us the option of moving to Version 10 or to Red Hat’s rolling development release, Rawhide.


Upgrade Your System

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The upgrade tool began by fetching a set of new packages from Fedora’s online software repositories.


Reboot Now

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With the needed packages downloaded, we were ready to reboot and continue the upgrade process.


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Limbo Mode

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Unlike the Ubuntu in-place upgrade process, Fedora’s upgrader does most of its installation work in a sort of system-limbo mode.


Installing Upgrades

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Our basic Fedora 9 installation required 792 package updates to become Fedora 10.


Welcome to Fedora 10

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With our package updates behind us, we had ourselves a shiny new Fedora 10 installation-with a giant raft of additional updates to install. We’d like to see the system roll this step into the initial upgrade process.


PackageKit and PolicyKit

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The best thing about PackageKit, at this point, is its integration with the PolicyKit permissions management framework that ships with Fedora 10.


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