Re: Can I update from Fedora 3 to 4, post 3 yum updates?

From: ERIC BURSLEY (ebursley_at_swbell.net)
Date: 09/10/05

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    Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:27:16 GMT

    Yes you can update via yum. Those updates will be over written with a FC4
    version. If no version exists for FC4, that package won't install. If there
    are any rpm dependency problems, yum will notify you prior to installing
    anything, and you will need to fix them first. 

    -- 
Eric Bursley
"nntp_usr" <urjunkhere@foobar.nit> wrote in message 
news:LqLKe.4044$RZ2.2717@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>I want to update to Fedora 4, but I've got many yum updates from 3, so I'm
> concerned that the update will destroy the yum 3 installs.
>
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