Re: update from 17 to 18 failed

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lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Frank Murphy <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:51:52 +0200
>> lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> running the update from 17 to 18 failed after going 67% through,
>>> please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972358 .
>>> 
>>> What can I do now so I'm not stuck with a mixture of 17 and 18?
>>> 
>>>
>>
>> Reboot with enforcing=0 on the kernel 
>> then at the command prompt 
>> sudo  yum --releasever=18 distro-sync,
>> it should restore all *.rpms to 18 release.
>
> Same result, no packages marked for sync.  It doesn't do anything and
> the packages from 17 remain installed along with the ones from 18.
>
> Is there a way to get rid of the packages from 17 and to replace them
> with those from 18 without breaking anything?  This is something the
> package management is supposed to take care of in the first place so a
> situation like this should never occur ...

Hmm, I could do

package-cleanup --dupes | grep fc17 | xargs yum remove

... but how do I know if essential packages are being removed that way?
At least what yum says looks good as in that there don't seem to be any
packages from 18 removed that way, and I'd get rid of 1289 packages.


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