Installing Gnome 2.12 in Fedora

[wwp]

Hello all,


On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:22:38 -0700 Ian MacGregor <fedora at ardchoille.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> mooshie wrote:
> > wwp wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:07:50 -0500 mooshie <mooshie at bluebottle.com> 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hello all!
> >>> I found this nice little tutorial on how to install the newest Gnome 
> >>> 2.12 in Fedora Core, it works perfectly! You will definatly notice 
> >>> the difference from 2.10! Check it out and let me know how it works 
> >>> for you!
> >>>
> >>> http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Upgrade_your_FC4_box_to_the_latest_Gnome_2.12_desktop 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Note: I am not taking credit for writing this, nor am I the technical 
> >>> support for it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Did anyone try to upgrade FC3 to gnome 2.10 from this repos?
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> > Not that I am aware of, I tried it on FC4 and it works flawlessly. Its 
> > up to you to try it from FC3
> > 
> I am worried about mixing repos in doing this. I currently use 
> Extras/livna and I heard that the nrpms repo replaces core files. Isn't 
> this dangerous? I'd love to use the new gnome, but I don't want to take 
> a chance on hosing my system because I mixed repos.

I see 2 solutions: make a backup of the whole system before upgrading to
nrpms, or being able to safely rollback yum/rpm transaction. Does anyone know
if it's possible to do (and rollback) rpm "transactions"? I mean defining a
checkpoint, installing rpms and if things go bad, unrolling up to the
checkpoint. Sorry about my rpm poor knowledge :-\.


Regards,

-- 
wwp