upgrade F7 to F8 problems

[Kam Leo]

On Nov 12, 2007 7:39 AM, Claude Jones <cjones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Mon November 12 2007, Matt Hirsch wrote:
> > I just got this error as well. "rpm -e --nopostun ..." works. So
> > --noscripts would work too.
> >
> > I've been using Fedora since FC1, and I've never run into an obstacle
> > in upgrading that required more effort to solve than wiping the system
> > and doing a fresh install! And that said, it's only gotten easier with
> > later versions of fedora...
>
> Thanks, I had filed a bugzilla and gotten that --noscripts suggestion within
> hours.
>
> To Kam: yes, there are good reasons for clean installs, so what???

Ubuntu makes upgrades easy. Why doesn't Fedora? After all, Red
Hat/Fedora are not the new kids on the block.


> There are also good reasons for upgrades, and I chose the latter -- I'm happy.
> It took me under an hour to fix a couple of issues after the process, and now
> my machine is exactly configured as it was before, without my having to go in
> and rebuild all my many months of configurations and customizations which
> normally can take many hours, and usually, more than that - days...
>
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> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD, USA
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