Another preupgrade update mess up

[Darlene Wallach]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Only this time I know what happened.
>
> A word of warning. Pre-upgrade has a fun failure mode which occurs
> because it doesn't lock out updates from occurring behind its back. An
> update while preupgrade was sitting waiting a couple of hours for me to ok
> the reboot pulled in some new packages for the old distro...
>
> So if you are using preupgrade, make sure you shut down automatic updates
> and the like first.
>

If I don't upgrade to the next Fedora but install from scratch each
time, I'm assuming I do *not* want to install the preupgrade package.


> Alan (and I'll stick it in bugzilla tomorrow am)
>

equal justice under law,
Darlene Wallach