Upgraded a fedora 9 x86_64 on an AMD 3800 from the alpha dvd. The
upgrade went fairly smoothly except for the following problems
* Installer reported that it couldn't find the grub boot block and
advised that I do nothing. Somehow this didn't stop it from
correctly modifying my /boot partition. I know that it modified it
and not rewrote it since it kept my name for the windows boot.
* after some 570 out of 745 modules it tried to update the selinux
targeted module. This took many minutes with no discernible
activity. I thought that it had died. There should be some
indication that it is really doing something at this stage.
* The kernel install also took a long time but my selinux experience
gave me the patience to wait it out.
* After upgrading all of the packages, a message box saying
"finishing upgrade" started flashing. It wasn't on screen at any
time for more than a fraction of a second, but kept coming back
every couple of seconds. Again, looked like something was broken.
* The reference to the livna repository changed to have a compatible
version name. But, since the repository is not active, it made yum
fail.
* When finished, there were some packages that reported unsatisfied
dependencies. The most important to me was the nautilus desktop
patch that enables starting a terminal from a right click.
Updating the problem packages from rawhide fixed the issues.
In conclusion, I would say that it went fairly well for an alpha
release. But the user experience for selinux definitely needs to be
improved.
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