Doing one as we speak on a purely 32-bit system, will post back with results. > 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 > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
