F7 to F8: no joy =/

[Antonio]

2007/11/14, André Costa <blueser at gmail.com>:
> Hi Claude,
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 12:14 AM, Claude Jones <cjones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> > On Tue November 13 2007, André Costa wrote:
> > > Please let me know if there's any additional info I can provide.
> > >
> > > Damn, this is really frustrating =/
> >
> > Lots of people reporting this issue including me. I did a yum upgrade on two
> > machines that failed on upgrade from the DVD in the way you describe. Worked
> > beautifully. It took a long time - I had to remove a couple of packages on
> > one machine that failed dependency checks, but other than that, it worked.
> > The usual little stuff is broken after the upgrade, but nothing show-stopping
> > so far. Avahi ends up with two instances after the update, but you can google
> > the fix for that - it's simple. Long time means overnight - there were around
> > 1400 packages on each machine that got updated. Both were complete when I
> > looked the next morning.
>
> Thks for sharing your experience. Well, something is definitely broken
> on F8 upgrade process, a Core 2 Duo should never need 1+ hour of
> processing at 1.0 load to figure out the dependencies -- even if it's
> just to realize it can't go further for some reason (eg. third-party
> packages -- which I do have, from Freshrpms). I remember experiencing
> similar delays with F6 --> F7 upgrade, but it wasn't comparable to
> this. It looks like anaconda still needs some serious work.
>
> Well, a network upgrade with yum should work, but what will happen if
> I lose connection for some reason? Will it be possible to recover from
> a half-completed upgrade? Is it possible to use yum to upgrade from
> the installation DVD?
>
> I'll try to file a bug report for this (if there isn't one about it
> yet) hoping that F9 will come with a anaconda that works =/
>
> Regards,
>
> Andre
>
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I think that as soon as anaconda problem is solved, DVD should be
re-issued. I am waiting that before wiping out one of my server, for a
clean install
Luckily I had other computer upgraded by switching from F7 to
development repos and finally to F8. I am following same procedure for
F9, development repos is already enabled on one of my computer
-- 
Antonio Montagnani
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