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2010-02-23 , 18:39
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Originally Posted by gemi View Post
It is possible to make a YUM upgrade, but it is not as mature as the apt-get upgrade. The best and safest way is still to boot an installation DVD to upgrade.
Yum is commonly used for point upgrade (such as from Red Hat 5.3 to 5.4). For Red Hat since big version upgrade happens quite rare, whether Yum can do version upgrade is not very big deal.

Fedora are having what they called "PreUpgrade" for version upgrade, in which after downloading the packages, control is transferred to Anaconda (its installer agent) to actually execute the upgrade.

Originally Posted by gemi View Post
YUM works well, but with a large number of packages it becomes quite slow.
I believe anything will be slow given enough number or stuff. :-) But Yum is written in Python instead of binary code. May contribute to its slowness.