F19 --> F18 feasible?

[Mark LaPierre]

On 10/20/2013 12:04 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:00:11 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:04:26PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>>> 	Is there a FedDown lurking out
>>> there somewhere?
>>
>> You can always try `yum --releasever=18 distro-sync'.  But it goes
>> without saying, there are no guarantees whatsover.
> 
> 	Well, I ran it once, and it gave me a lot of errors, then 
> suggested the usual rpm command and the --skipbroken command. I ran the 
> rpm command, then "yum clean all" for good measure; then I arrowed up to 
> the command above, and added --skipbroken to it.
> 
> 	Next time I looked, it was racing through its items faster than 
> I've ever seen it do, on and on, and on. I fact, it's still doing it. If 
> anyone had told me all this fifty years ago, I wouldn't've believed a 
> word of it. 
> 
> 	I think, assuming this succeeds, that it's time to go through the 
> lists in yumex or packagekit, looking for things I know I never use, and 
> uninstalling them on general principles.
> 
> 	MUCH LATER (in fact, next day): I left it still running when I 
> went to bed. This morning it had stopped, saying that it had been killed, 
> but not when nor why. I restarted it, and it's still running.
> 

Hmmmm?  I wonder if there's a yum command that will change a i686 system
to a x86_64 system of the same release.

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