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Fedup upgrade from F17

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I have a f17 x64 system that I want to upgrade to the latest Fedora. I found information indicating that I should use fedup. I have read further and gotten conflicting reports and suggestions. The project documentation says to use this method but user reports say it doesn't work. Could I get some clarification on this subject?

Can I actually use fedup to go to f19 from f17? Do I have to do an upgrade through f18? Is there a good "how to", step-by-step, on the subject for this scenario?

posted Aug 25, 2013 by Seema Siddique

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I actually just upgraded my F17 to F18 mythtv box and it worked fine. One thing to note, I keep a couple of local repositories shared via NFS. For some reason, fedup assumes these packages will be available during the upgrade and does not copy them to the local disk. To make matters worse, when it cant find 800 ish of the upgrade packages, it doesnt quit, it upgrades anyway leaving an unusable system.
For me the trick was: 

fedup --network 18 --disablerepo "local*"

After the upgrade I just did a yum update and yum-distro-sync and that caught up the packages from my local repository.

answer Aug 25, 2013 by Deepankar Dubey
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I've done this twice. My laptop went perfectly. My desktop hung at about 60%, requiring me to use the reset button and clean up from a CLI. Just remember that you're more likely to hear from people who's upgrades don't go well than from those who's do.

BTW, one of the reasons I skipped F18 is that there were so many complaints at fedoraforum.org about failed upgrades. There seem to be very few there with F19, suggesting that there aren't as many bugs as there used to be.

answer Aug 25, 2013 by Majula Joshi
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