A word to the wise regarding failed fedup upgrades

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> If you try to fedup and the fedup doesn't work (completed but kernel panic on 
> boot) don't try to 'yum erase' the duplicate RPM's. I goes through the 
> uninstall process and removes all the GLIBC files and leaves you with a 
> totally stuiffed server

Yes indeed. Instead, use `package-cleanup --cleandupes` (possibly with the
--noscripts flag if there are issues) from the yum-utils package.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader