monstrous failure of "yum update" on fedora 11 alpha

[John Summerfield]

Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 04:59 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> i decided to "yum update" my f11 alpha system and, after downloading
>> some 1500 packages, it went to work, unpacking about 500 packages
>> before every single package after that generated an unpacking error.
>>
>>   has anyone else had a successful "yum update"?
>>
>> rday
>>
> I've had. About over 700MiB of download on 7GiB / (with about 50 % of
> available space there) went almost smooth. I've had to update glib by
> hand (yum didn't want to replace the i386 version with i586 one, instead
> tried to have both and thus failed on depsolving). I also updated rpm
> and yum first, as a precaution.

That is sensible. I think up2date could (and was made to) update itself 
first.


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