Hi, Here are my very first impressions of a system update from FC6 to F7 using yum. Note that I haven't "insisted" yet, but it's not looking good. First thought : Try "yum update" after updating fedora-release (and fedora-release-notes which it requires). No go, because some F7 updates are required to fix my system's upgrade path (in this case it's audacious-plugins which is newer in FC6 and requires an older version of curl). Second thought : I'll break down the transaction in smaller bits, which can only be a good thing. So "yum install kernel yum". No go, it stops about rpm-libs and rpm-devel still needing the FC6 rpm. Possibly a multiarch problem since it appears I have i386 rpm-libs and rpm-devel installed for some reason. Third thought : Try an even smaller transaction. "yum install kernel" No go, because it would update the x86_64 ncurses, which then conflicts with the older i386 ncurses. Possibly the same problem as the previous transaction. Current thought : do a "yum remove glibc.i686" to get rid of all 32bit packages before trying anything else. But this scares me a little, since last time I did this, many applications stopped working (segfaults inside gconv libs) until I upgraded all x86_64 glibc packages. Might work here since the F7 update will do so... Other current thought : To hell with it, format "/" and reinstall from DVD... Last current thought : This used to be much easier. I'm not an unexperienced user, and it's annoying for me, which is not a good sign. Oh, and I hate multilib, and most of all that one-arch-only proprietary flash plugin. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) - Linux kernel 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 Load : 0.21 0.25 0.42 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
