Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Right now, it's 10:37am. Around 10:00 I began upgrading FC4 to FC6. At
10:06am, anaconda started stage 2, I told it to upgrade, and I got to
the "Checking dependencies in packages selected for instalation".
It's 10:37am, I'm still on that stupid screen, and the progress bar is
still on 0%. On an ALT-VT, I can see anaconda is still shewing on
/var/lib/rpm/Packages.
What exactly is so complicated here? This is not rocket science. This
should not take more than a few minutes to compile a list of packages to
ugprade. This is not a complete FC 4 install. Just the base install,
plus X, plus dev tools.
It seems that with each passing release rpm, and yum, keeps getting
slower and bloated. It's a dinosaur, with years' worth of hacks and
patches piled up on top of each other, who's long overdue for retirement
and replacement.
Wait… Hooray! The progress bar is up to 5%! It found six packages
that need to be added to the upgrade list to satisfy dependencies. And
it only took 40 minutes to do so.
What a speed demon.
I went through this a few weeks ago after talking to our IT people that
said it was easy. On a default FC install, it is easy. Once you add
external sites, you have to download and check all those dependencies as
well. Now the fun has begun. FWIW, it took me over a week to get back
to normal day to day procedures.
I won't do an upgrade again.
--
Robin Laing
