FC6 to Rawhide via repo switch
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Fri Feb 23 14:46:54 UTC 2007
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 14:19:06 -0500,
Paul Michael Reilly <pmr at pajato.com> wrote:
> I recently got my system wedged without having good notes about what
> happened. So I figured that the simplest path to getting back to a
> running Rawhide was to install minimally FC6 and change the repos to
> select development (should extras development be enabled?) and then do
> an update. I did that and midway through the 1000+ package update the
> system rebooted leaving me scratching my head wondering if I should
> distrust this approach or just reboot and try again with another update
> and hope for the best. I did the latter and have been beset by weird
> behavior ever since. Like checkbox buttons not echoing properly on GUIs
> and non elf format conflicts in some bin programs and libraries.
If you have a high speed network connection, you are probably better off
booting from the rawhide boot iso and doing a network install. (Unless
you specifically want to test upgrading.)
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