Yum distro-sync makes more problems than solves

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Sat Feb 12 21:34:49 UTC 2011


On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

>
> Absolutely. Please do improve the page. ;)

Done.

>
>> IMHO there are three problems:
>> 1. keys needs to be imported per distro version
>> 2. "yum clean all" can not be followed by "yum update yum" but should
>> be switched, otherwise yum distro-sync is using incorrect metadata
>> 3. should remove --skip-broken and ask users to solve broken deps
>> before distro-sync as skipping brokens is not a solution
>
> Yep. I agree with all those things.

Would like if somebody can review the page
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum

> kevin

Adam Pribyl


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