On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
Same result, no packages marked for sync. It doesn't do anything
and
the packages from 17 remain installed along with the ones from 18.
Hmm, maybe your repository configuration is still unhappy? What does
`yum repolist` say?
Also, you could try a `yum clean all` and retry it; perhaps there's
some stale data screwing up the works.
Are you using a F17 yum/rpm or an F18 yum/rpm? (`rpm -q yum rpm` will
tell you.) A mixture of these could also be causing issues.
Is there a way to get rid of the packages from 17 and to replace
them
with those from 18 without breaking anything?
This is exactly what `yum distro-sync` is supposed to do. Figuring
out why it's unhappy is the first step to getting your system back
into working order.
This is something the
package management is supposed to take care of in the first place so a
situation like this should never occur ...
I'm not aware of any package manager that doesn't have issues like
these from time to time. dpkg/apt aren't any better; I've seen
Debian and Ubuntu upgrades go south and leave the system in an
inconsistent state too.
Remember, Murphy's Law always applies. ;-)
-T.C.