I seem to have entered F-11

Fred Silsbee fredsilsbee at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 30 15:47:45 UTC 2008




--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: I seem to have entered F-11
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 3:06 PM
> On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 14:43 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 13:13 +0000, Timothy Murphy
> wrote:
> > >> On one machine, which I rarely use under
> Linux,
> > >> I ran "sudo yum update" last night,
> > >> and it installed hundreds of fc11 packages.
> > > 
> > > See if the Rawdide repo is enabled.
> > 
> > It is, I know.
> > 
> > But I assume that on my other machines
> > the status of the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/
> > was somehow modified.
> > I suppose my question is,
> > when did this happen
> > and how was it missed on this machine?
> 
> Most likely you has Rawhide enabled and used "yum
> update" to go from F9
> to F10. This would normally disable Rawhide, so either it
> didn't or you
> re-enabled it unintentionally.
> 
> poc
> 
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about 2 years ago I installed rawhide at the advice of the top rawhide guy

he said "with rawhide you'll be continually faced with dependency problems."

Maybe I saved that email!

It was such a mess I had to load Fedora from scratch.

I want to use Fedora not play with it.


      




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