F18 *vs.* yum update??

[Reindl Harald]

Am 05.06.2013 20:08, schrieb Beartooth:
> On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:17:18 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Looks like you've somehow installed a f18 kernel on a genuine f17 box.
>  
> 	That could be : 
> 
> [btth at Hbsk2 ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
> Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)

this is clearly a F17 and most likely someone enabled
the rawhide repo to clutter the setup

> Yum update --skip-broken got me a disiplay of lines rushing up 
> the screen too fast to read, which literally went on for several minutes.
> It ended up with : 
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ================================================================================================
> Install                           3 Packages (+7 Dependent packages)
> Upgrade                          71 Packages
> Remove                            2 Packages
> Skipped (dependency problems)  2688 Packages
> 
> Total download size: 293 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: 
> 
> 	I assented, noting that most but not all of the lines above 
> contained an fc18 term. This time I got : 
> 
> Is this ok [y/N]: y

*wow* do *not* skip-broken in case of *dist-upgrades*

this is the way to go in doubt and *not* "yum update"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18

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