slow FC4 to FC5 upgrade

[rus]

I found the same problem, and after installing, a 'yum update' also took
forever.

Eventually I narrowed it down to the test transaction stage, and in
particular, the fact that I had about 15 old kernel-devel packages (from
my previous FC4 installation) was crippling rpm transactions.

I wrote a quick bash script to loop through and 'rpm -e' all my old FC4
kernel-devel packages - which took quite a long time.  It seemed to cure
the problem for me.

I don't know if this was a red herring, or just co-incidence.. just my
experience. 

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 22:09 -0500, John Swartzentruber wrote:
> On 3/23/2006 12:40 PM Jack Howarth wrote:
> >     Has anyone else found the upgrade from FC4 to FC5 to be
> > painfully slow? A user here started the upgrade this morning
> > with IDE=nodma and the anaconda claims to need close to 450
> > minutes to complete. Is this normal? The machine has an 
> > ultra IDE drive.
> 
> I don't know if it is normal, but my FC4-FC5 upgrade that I started at 
> about noon still wasn't done at 5:15. It did complete successfully and I 
> think everything worked. Now I'm doing the yum update, which adds even 
> more time.
> 
> It does seem like an awfully long time. I guess if that's what it takes 
> to do it right, I won't complain.
> 
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