[Fedora-directory-users] Do not yum install fedora-ds or yum upgrade!

[Richard Megginson]

Roman Dronov wrote:
> Richard, good day!
> Where can i find roadmap and planing features for the next FDS release?
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Documentation#Proposed_New_Features
>
> Thanks.
>
> With the greatest regard,
> Roman Dronov.
>
> 2007/2/16, Richard Megginson < rmeggins at redhat.com 
> <mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com>>:
>
>     There is a problem with the new fedora-ds in Fedora Extras.  It
>     conflicts with the old fedora-ds 1.0.x installation.  If you do a 'yum
>     install fedora-ds' or a 'yum update' on a system that has fedora-ds
>     1.0.x installed, the installation will remove the old
>     binaries.  You may
>     be saying "So what?  Isn't that what you want?"  No, sadly.  The
>     fedora-ds 1.1.0a1 in Fedora Extras is the core only - when you
>     upgrade,
>     you remove all of the other files for admin server, console,
>     etc.  The
>     good news is that none of the configuration or data is affected
>     and you
>     can easily recover by following these steps:
>
>         * Find the fedora-ds 1.0.4 RPM you installed from originally, or
>           download from http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Download
>         * rpm -Uvh --oldpackage fedora-ds-1.0.4-1......rpm
>
>     We are working on a solution for this.  We will hopefully figure
>     out a
>     way to install both 1.0.4 and 1.1 at the same time, but we may have to
>     make the 1.1 Conflicts: fedora-ds < 1.1 or something like
>     that.  In the
>     meantime, fedora-ds is being pulled from the Fedora Extras yum
>     repos so
>     that this doesn't happen again.
>
>     I apologize for any inconvenience.
>
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