Schlaegel wrote : > On 5/31/07, Matthias Saou > <thias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Other current thought : To hell with it, format "/" and reinstall from > > DVD... > > This is my normal course of action. I don't want to deal with the > leftover packages and the missing new packages. I just let Anaconda do > its job. This is quite easily dealt with : Running "package-cleanup --orphans" (from yum-utils) will list you all the packages currently installed which aren't listed in any configured repository. Then "yum groupinstall Base" will show/install the base packages which you don't have installed, usually because they were added in the last Fedora release. Of course, this doesn't remove unused stuff, nor does it deal so gracefully with configuration changes or even low-level install changes, for instance if anaconda now chooses different defaults for LVM layouts, sizes or even ext3 formatting options. Right now I've gotten back to the office, where my workstation freshly updated to F7 was waiting at the (new!) gdm login screen. FWIW, here are the annoyances I've seen so far : - My gnome-panel didn't start - I was seeing many denies regarding /dev/nvidia* accesses (yeah..) -> I disabled selinux and rebooted :-( - My desktop came up with metacity, I had to manually switch back to Beryl (probably because of the previous errors) - My GNOME menu icon is gone. Even if I add a new main GNOME menu to my panel, it doesn't have any icon. The name probably changed and I'll need to get a newer theme. *sigh* - All my fonts look different, in firefox as well as claws-mail... Note that many of my "annoyances" aren't related to packages themselves, more to the fact that I kept my /home intact. As always, there is clearly room for upgrade improvements, but as always... it's not that easy to get right in all possible scenarios. Oh, the "yum update" finished OK on my x86_64 after the esound hack, and on my i386 laptop (Dell X1) it went absolutely fine. I just need to get S3 working again, as I wanted to start fresh and removed all the kernel boot options I had in case they weren't useful anymore... Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) - Linux kernel 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 Load : 0.08 0.54 0.54 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
