FC5 -> FC6 upgrade bombing out with elfutils errors

[Jim Cornette]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> > I'm trying to upgrade an FC5-x86_64 system to FC6-x86_64 via yum (yes,
>> > i know this is unsupported).  I've done 4 upgrades already like this,
>> > but they were all x86, rather than x86_64, so this is my first 64bit
>> > upgrade.  The yum upgrade process keeps failing with a ton of
>> > dependency errors related to elfutils & elfutils-libelf.  Anyone else
>> > run into this?
>> >
>>
>> Do you have both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions installed? Is something
>> else pulling in dependencies for either package that is causing the
>> problem? Have you tried to run update on the libelf packages first since
>> they are causing the conflict?
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have no 64-bit machine to help.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  Yes, I did have the i386 versions installed as
> well, so its possible that was the issue.  Those were good
> suggestions, but unfortunately, impatience got the better of me, and I
> tried to force the upgrade, which then completely broke rpm.
> Thankfully doing an upgrade with anaconda worked, so I'm back in
> business.
> 
> 

I'm glad that using the installer got things to upgrade for you. One 
advantage to the installer is the recovery from --force tactics. :-)

Let the --force *NOT* be with you.

Jim

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