Please keep all conversations on list so others can benefit from questions. And no idea where it caches it all, I've never used it. I presume it would be in /var somewhere but the usual disk utils should be able to answer the question for you. Peter On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:32 PM, David Cook <d.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Again Peter, > > OK - I should have realised but it still leaves me with a smaller problem: I > don't know where > fedup has parked all the update material so can delete it - do you know > where it is? > > Regards, > > Dave > > ======================================================= > > > On 5 April 2013 06:44, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >>> This is one for P (Peter?) Robinson I think >> >> >> You think wrong. >> >>> >>> I have just done fedup-cli on my Raspberry Pi which worked fine but on >>> re-booting there is no >>> boot menu from grub - it simply boots, as before, into FC17 with >>> graphical login invitation. >> >> >> That is because the RPi doesn't run grub, in fact none of the ARM >> platforms currently support grub and as a result fedup isn't currently >> supported. >> >>> >>> I looked at /boot and see that there is an executable file vmlinuz-fedup >>> there, should >>> I just execute it and hope for the best? I recently did the same >>> operation for fc17 -> fc18 on >>> my 686 machine which went without a hitch - perhaps because it always >>> gives a >>> (brief glimpse of!) a grub boot menu. >>> >> >> Generally I don't execute random binaries and hope for the best.... We >> currently don't really support upgrades on ARM. I've used "yum upgrade" >> without issues in the past but on hardfp platforms there was a change in the >> core linker soname path so it's not always reliable. That said we currently >> don't support fedup as it has a hard requirement on the bootloader which >> doesn't currently work on ARM. I find in most cases it's easiest to get a >> new SD card and set it up with the new release then pull the old one out and >> plug the new one in. It has easy roll back and other advantages. >> >> Ultimately though the upgradability and dealing with new RPi kernels is a >> question for Seneca to answer as the RPi is their project >> >> Peter > > _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
