Dear list, I just used the standard install method (PXE booted to the usual install GUI) to do an "upgrade" from a fairly clean (recently reinstalled) FC5 laptop to FC6 and encountered a few minor problems (minor with potentially serious consequences; I'm hoping that my system isn't trashed and won't need a clean FC6 reinstall). a) The layering of the installation (or whatever) caused /etc/yum.conf to contain distroverpkg=redhat-release (which was not installed). This is, I believe, supposed to be overwritten with fedora-release (which WAS installed) so that it ends up distroverpkg=fedora-release Consequently when I ran yum post install, I got a most strange mix of updates and so on from FC 5 repo paths and many odd error messages. However yum itself was relatively well behaved and once I did some downloading of clean copies of the core rpms, some judicious rpm --erase and reinstallation (in the right order) yum itself worked fine. b) yumex, however, continued to try to access FC 5 repos (with the wrong checksums and near complete bombout) even AFTER yum.conf clearly contained the right distroverpkg and was supposed to be trying to access the 6 repos. I finally ran that problem down to here: one has to clear yumex-mirror-cache.conf: # null /var/cache/yum/yumex-mirror-cache.conf and then it works perfectly. Again I don't know if this is a problem with the order of the upgrades in the install or a matter of files being preserved (an "update" sort of thing) instead of replaced (as appropriate for an "upgrade" sort of thing) but it definitely seems like it ought to be in a %post somewhere. I >>think<< that things are now working so that yumex functions, although I'm just about to test it and will report if it still bombs. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
