Upgrading to rawhide from F11 by yumex

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Sep 23 15:35:32 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 08:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:14:58 +0200,
>   Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I think that also upgarding by yum should work.
> 
> I did a yum upgrade from F11 + Updates + Updates-Testing last Friday. There
> was a fair amount of hand holding because skip broken couldn't handle some of
> the issues. But I was able to remove some stuff and then add most of it back
> after getting the system upgraded.

Right. This is the proper procedure. It's not unusual for there to be
little dependency issues like the one Antonio posted. As Bruno and
Martin said, as long as it's only a few packages and they're not
critical, you can just remove them to make the process complete.

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