On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:31 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Due to these installer problems we're probably not going to be able to have an official PowerPC release for Fedora 15, but the goal is to definitely get it done for Fedora 16.
Am I interpreting this right that this effctively means we will have to run a new installation on PPC machines currently runninc F12?
Well, if you want to do a yum update, you don't *need* the installer initrd to work :)
There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to update to the F15 packages even without an installer, surely?
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:32 AM, David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org wrote:
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:31 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Due to these installer problems we're probably not going to be able to have an official PowerPC release for Fedora 15, but the goal is to definitely get it done for Fedora 16.
Am I interpreting this right that this effctively means we will have to run a new installation on PPC machines currently runninc F12?
Well, if you want to do a yum update, you don't *need* the installer initrd to work :)
There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to update to the F15 packages even without an installer, surely?
Aside from the normal hiccups associated with doing yum updates? I'd be hesitant to suggest doing a yum update from f12 -> f15. That is quite a gap, and the associated Provides/Obsoletes might not be able to account for it all.
If one is determined enough it might work though.
josh
On Thursday, April 28, 2011 08:32:48 AM David Woodhouse wrote:
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:31 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Due to these installer problems we're probably not going to be able to have an official PowerPC release for Fedora 15, but the goal is to definitely get it done for Fedora 16.
Am I interpreting this right that this effctively means we will have to run a new installation on PPC machines currently runninc F12?
Well, if you want to do a yum update, you don't *need* the installer initrd to work :)
There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to update to the F15 packages even without an installer, surely?
Its actually pretty dicey, you would need a fully updated f12 since glibc requires a 2.6.32 kernel. and with the change from upstart to systemd. ive seen cases where the yum updated box wouldnt boot. and you cant go back to the older kernel to poke at things.
Dennis
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