Am 10.02.2012 20:05, schrieb Matthew Garrett: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 07:56:28PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> and Preupgrade is guaranteed to work? >> laughable! > > Not guaranteed, but it works within a massively more constrained > environment and so certain fundamental issues don't apply. yum > distro-sync requires that all currently running applications are able to > deal with their files being replaced. Preupgrade doesn't. That's a > pretty obvious distinction, and it's why preupgrade is supportable in a > way that yum isn't. and why is this so? because the feature is introduced ina a hurry brainedead way! around 350 files well F17 -> change packages to replace them one by one with symlinks which could be targeted without stress even after F17 GA package for package so F17->F18 could verify this are only symlinks and remove them or cancel the action with a message that this has to be cleaned up but yes, if we make always hurry decisions without thinking what they may inroduce finally then will always mistakes happen - hopefully the people acting so does this not in a payed job and nobody fires them!
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