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Has Fedora got sane upgrade paths yet? Last time I used it was Fedora 14, and the recommended way to upgrade was a wipe/reinstall from scratch. There was no s
by na85 8y ago
Has Fedora got sane upgrade paths yet? Last time I used it was Fedora 14, and the recommended way to upgrade was a wipe/reinstall from scratch. There was no supported upgrade-in-place path.
- meddlepal 8y agoI still do the wipe and reinstall out of legacy fear, but my coworker has been doing the upgrades since F26 and says they have worked flawlessly... Big caveat: He doesn't use binary Nvidia drivers (integrated GPU on his laptop). It seems upgrades always seem to snag on Nvidia drivers from my experience.
- v_lisivka 8y agoI have binary NVidia drivers. I have no problem with upgrades for last few releases at least (since akmod invented). Sometimes, I need to switch from supported release to legacy release of drivers or switch back, because of NVidia politics to remove old drives from binary.
- bwat49 8y agoI'm not a fedora user myself, but I believe that there is a direct upgrade path (and has been for a while now).
- ksplice 8y agoIt has, a long time ago. I have been using Fedora since (I believe) version 23, now on 29. The system is heavily customized (with a lot of the relatively core stuff (like firewalld) ripped out), and I haven't had a single problem with the upgrades.
- tokai 8y agoMy experience have been similar. 24 to 30 beta on my desktop without a single issue.
- v_lisivka 8y agoYep. Even simple `dnf upgrade -y && dnf updrade --releasever=30 -y` should work, because difference between releases is small enough. (No groundbreaking changes). I did upgrade from Fedora 26 to Fedora 28 using simple upgrade. Recommended command for system upgrade is `sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30` then `sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot` .