On 10/20/2013 12:04 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:00:11 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:04:26PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>>> Is there a FedDown lurking out
>>> there somewhere?
>>
>> You can always try `yum --releasever=18 distro-sync'. But it goes
>> without saying, there are no guarantees whatsover.
>
> Well, I ran it once, and it gave me a lot of errors, then
> suggested the usual rpm command and the --skipbroken command. I ran the
> rpm command, then "yum clean all" for good measure; then I arrowed up to
> the command above, and added --skipbroken to it.
>
> Next time I looked, it was racing through its items faster than
> I've ever seen it do, on and on, and on. I fact, it's still doing it. If
> anyone had told me all this fifty years ago, I wouldn't've believed a
> word of it.
>
> I think, assuming this succeeds, that it's time to go through the
> lists in yumex or packagekit, looking for things I know I never use, and
> uninstalling them on general principles.
>
> MUCH LATER (in fact, next day): I left it still running when I
> went to bed. This morning it had stopped, saying that it had been killed,
> but not when nor why. I restarted it, and it's still running.
>
Hmmmm? I wonder if there's a yum command that will change a i686 system
to a x86_64 system of the same release.
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