Upgrading to rawhide from F11 by yumex

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 23 17:36:17 UTC 2009



On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:35:32 -0700,
>  Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> In my case, the stuff I had to remove took about 1000 packages with it
> include the x server. That slows things down a bit.
>
> Also when i go through this process, I try to report cases of missing
> obsoletes and the like, so that the process might work better for people
> doing it after the release.
>
> And I should thank Seth for all of the work with yum. skip_broken keeps

And thank James Antill and Tim Lauridisen.

They both put in ugly amounts of work and deserve all sorts of credit.

-sv




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