On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:

Am 30.05.2012 20:36, schrieb Les Mikesell:

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Fedora doesn't support/recommend in-place upgrades across major versions or at least didn't for those versions.  My experience was that even within a major rev. an update could kill your system.

then you are doing something wrong

Yes, I was running it on an IBM server box that they didn't bother to test. Found out much later that the pre-update kernel worked on the firmware I had installed and the mid-rev update they pushed needed a firmware bios update to run there.

am i really the only one who did some hundret successfull fedora dist-upgrades in the last 4 years with yum and no downtime longer than a normal kernel update?

Probably. Lots of other things broke in same-major-rev updates until I gave up at FC6. Whether any particular machine runs or not has never been a priority for fedora. Maybe your hardware matches one of the developers. On the other hand, I had 2 4-year uptime runs with a pre-fedora RH 7.3. (had to move it once). For about 6 of those years it was very busy.