Upgrading from 6 to 7

[Brian]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> George Hare wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just read where someone upgraded from Fedora6 to Fedora7. Is this 
>> still a big risk with the
>> dependency issues. I have most things fairly stable and the way I 
>> like them. From alot of
>> opinions that I have read over the past couple of weeks here, it 
>> sounds like I might as well just
>> stay with 6. I'm starting to get figure-it-out-burn-out. Any Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> George Hare
>>
>
> I have everything up to F7 or development. F7 seems better than FC6 
> was but I have nothing left to compare F7 to FC6.
>
> - No problems at all with a fresh install on a laptop.
> - A lot of missing programs from an FC6 install which were not 
> available on the F7 DVD hampered things on an upgrade. mc, k3b and a 
> few other programs were no on the DVD and needed grabbed from the 
> "Everything" repositories to get these programs updated. (Not an 
> installation that has direct network access)
> - For an FC6 installation on a drive setup earlier, I lost that 
> install version due to the protected area being honored now for 
> partitions. It is now my development version. Everything is default 
> and I didn't want to bother with setting up everything on a new 
> install from scratch, thus it is development. No problems with 
> development as of yet, though I update about once a month when 
> problems are low.
> - For the development version, it is now F7 as far as repos and 
> packages unless there were regressions for F7 during test. It worked 
> so well that I decided not to keep running it development.
>
> So depending on what you install, when your disk partitions were 
> setup, if you use device names instead of LABEL= you may or may not 
> have issues with upgrades. They are possible though fresh installs 
> work bu are vacant from some favorite packages which used to be part 
> of core before the merge.
>
> Emailing from the development version if that helps you decide if F7 
> is worth the upgrade. (Newer and more experimental version)
>
> Jim
>
I upgraded from FC6 to 7 and did have a problem when updating the F7 
installation via yum. I included the error message below. I ended up 
performing a fresh install of F7. Aside from that, F7 has been great so 
far. I'm eager to see how MythTV and Firewire work on this system as 
I've heard some (negative) remarks about the Firewire stack. We'll see.

Transaction Check Error:
 file /sbin/mkinitrd from install of mkinitrd-6.0.9-7.1 conflicts with 
file from package mkinitrd-5.1.19.0.3-1