F8 -> F9 horror

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat May 31 19:16:23 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 08:03 -0700, scm in seattle wrote:
> Surely you can, in some manner... as I replied much earlier, I had by
> mistake enabled the Rawhide development repository.
> 
> The scary thing is that the normal/typical update manager found these
> packages and proceeded to 'upgrade' my system. In effect I went from
> F8 to F10 in a blink of 500mb... and of course it doesn't work. 
> 
> So yes my title is incorrect, the horror is not.
> 
> Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>         scm in seattle wrote:
>         
>         > No I did not read the release notes because... I was NOT
>         intending to
>         > upgrade to F9! I did accept the updates that the update
>         notifier prompted
>         > for me to accept.
>         
>         Surely you cannot upgrade to Fedora-9 by mistake?
>         
>         If in fact you have not upgraded to Fedora-9

Please don't top-post. I can't make sense of this message with the reply
in front of the question, nor can anyone else googling to get this
message. :) Thanks, Ric

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