Too eager?

[Jon Ciesla]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:08:00 -0500, Jon wrote:
>
>   
>>>> 1. yum upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing
>>>>
>>>> 2. yumdownloader --repoid=updates-testing yum
>>>>    cat <<EOL | yum shell
>>>> upgrade
>>>> install yum-3.2.23-3.fc11.noarch.rpm
>>>> run
>>>> EOL
>>>>
>>>>  #1 means you'll get all the other updates from updates-testing, #2 is
>>>> more typing.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> In #2 one also needs --enablerepo=updates-testing instead of --repoid=...
>>> and one must be very careful with typos. If Yum cannot find the
>>> packages given to it via "install", it fails badly with an interrupted
>>> transaction and (in case of F10 => F11) an unreadible RPM DB that
>>> needs manual repair.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks for the suggestions.  However the first fails as before, and the 
>> second fails due to libvte being broken, which I understand is being fixed.
>>     
>
> For #2 you need to _disable_ updates-testing, that's why you enable
> it only for yumdownloader. Due to the vte breakage you cannot enable
> it permanently for the upgrade, but you also need the newer ntp* packages
> from updates-testing. The release of F11 could have been much smoother
> for those who upgrade via Yum. Violated upgrade paths are bad.
>
>   
Agreed.

For #2, my attempt was with updates-testing disabled.  I've tried 
yumdownloading the ntp and nx packages and adding lines for those, and 
yum shell fails the same way yum did.

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