what if I reinstall?

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 13:02:34 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:01 PM, François Patte
> <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
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>> Le 13.09.2008 01:08, Kam Leo a écrit :
>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:43 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>>> Just curious about this with respect to the repo changes
>>>>> (and from what I hear more changes yet to come).
>>>>>
>>>>> Just before the repo disaster, I had to reinstall because
>>>>> my disk died.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the original DVD images still pointing to old repos,
>>>>> what happens if someone has to reinstall in a few weeks
>>>>> after all the planned repo changes are complete?
>>>>>
>>>>> Does it "just work", or will they need some manual intervention
>>>>> to get updates functioning on a system installed from
>>>>> original DVDs?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just curious - I'm hoping not to need to know :-).
>>>> ----
>>>> you need to follow the instructions to obtain any updates (and many of
>>>> the updates were sorely needed).
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>
>>> Why all these uncertainty questions? Have either of you checked any of
>>> the F8 and F9 updates repositories? There is only one rpm in F8
>>> updates
>>
>> Quite strange: up to yesterday, asking "yum update" on my f8 system gave
>> almost 1GB updates.... (I don't remember how many).
>>
>> Today, the same command wants to install tetex-xdvi 3.0-41.fc8 which is
>> supposed to replace xdvik.x86_64 22.84.13-17.fc9 (?!!) I don't
>> understand why for I replaced tetex by texlive as soon as this was
>> possible under f8.
>>
>> The only package to update today is: fedora-release
>>
>>
>> Is there still some mess in the repositories?
>>
>> - --
>> François Patte
>
> That is a possibility. Perhaps your updates mirror was out of sync.
> Have you installed fedora-release? It should point your update mirrors

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Haven't had my coffee fix yet. Should be fedora-updates-newkey.repo file.

> to the updates-newkey repositories.
>




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