FC5 Pukes on my machine

[Robin Humble]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:18:37PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
>Paul King wrote:
>>And yes, I know that Fedora is supposed to be free, but that is what the
>>website says, and there seems to be no portal to allow Fedora updates;

fedora and fedora updates have always been free (in both senses).
  http://fedora.redhat.com/
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/

>>in fact there is not much mention of Fedora at all. I get the feeling
>>now that Fedora has now become a one-time download of an experimental
>>and possibly broken set of RPMs, and if you want bug fixes and the like,
>>then you have to purchase "entitlements" from RedHat.

not sure what sort of FUD crack you are smoking there... :-)

>I would be interested to know which web site says that. I do remember that 
>RedHat offered a service where you could get priority access to updates for 
>their distros if you paid money. If you didn't pay, you just had to fight 
>it out with everyone else to get access to the public servers with updates.

fedora comes configured so that yum updates come from many (all free)
mirrors all over the world. some are fast, some are slow.

there's a yum package that apparently picks a close fast one for you:
  yum install yum-fastestmirror

if you want your machine to automatically update itself every night then:
  /sbin/chkconfig yum on
or
  yum upgrade
if you want to do it by hand.

Re: the original fc3 -> fc5 post:
you can point an fc3 version of yum at any fc5 mirror and then type
'yum upgrade' and you'll likely get from fc3 to fc5 ok. this works
especially well from fc4 to fc5 as anaconda is yum based now so more of
the niggling package dependancies have been corrected.
you'll also be able to see any errors that occur and be able to fix
them if you do it in this text mode.

my machine at home was happily playing divx's to the TV all the time it
was yum upgrading itself from fc4 to fc5.

cheers,
robin
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