f9 vs rawhide question

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I enabled the development repo long enough to pull in the new yum, which is 
reported to have a 're-install' option.  That also pulled in the following 
list of deps:
 Packages Installed:
    pygpgme.i386 0.1-8.fc9
 
 Packages Updated:
    yum-updatesd.noarch 1:0.9-1.fc9
    yumex.noarch 2.0.4-1.fc9
    glib2.i386 2.16.3-3.fc9
    yum.noarch 3.2.14-10.fc9
    glib2-devel.i386 2.16.3-3.fc9
    yum-metadata-parser.i386 1.1.2-8.fc9
    glibc.i686 2.8-1
    glibc-headers.i386 2.8-1
    glibc-devel.i386 2.8-1
    yum-utils.noarch 1.1.13-2.fc9
    glibc-common.i386 2.8-1

2 problems, 1) my build system is hosed, everything fails at the 'make clean' 
stage with an assertion error 134,

and 2) yum can't find a file its requested to re-install (& yumex hasn't been 
informed of the new option which would be the ideal situation)

Since I don't seem to have a path to back this up to pure, uptodate f8, is it 
safe right now to just let yum update the whole system to rawhide?  That's 
1300+ packages, including kde-4.03, which I understand from copying the mail 
here, will hose kmail, and I have little use for t-bird until it grows some 
ease of configuration like kmail has had for 5+ years.

Or should I cancel that, and see about getting the beta image here first?
Yumex is waiting. :)

Or should I cherry pick and see if newer gcc pieces might help?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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