preupgrade attempt from f11 box to rawhide?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 23:02 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> > =====
> > # yum --enablerepo=rawhide update tiger\*
> > Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, downloadonly, presto, refresh-packagekit
> > Setting up Update Process
> > No Packages marked for Update
> > =====
> > yum --enablerepo=rawhide list tiger\*
> > Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, downloadonly, presto, refresh-packagekit
> > Installed Packages
> > tigervnc.i586                1.0.0-2.fc11  @updates
> > tigervnc-server.i586         1.0.0-2.fc11  @updates
> > Available Packages
> > tiger.i586                   3.2.1-10.fc11 fedora
> > tiger.i686                   3.2.1-11.fc12 rawhide
> > tigervnc.i686                1.0.0-1.fc12  rawhide
> > tigervnc-server.i686         1.0.0-1.fc12  rawhide
> > tigervnc-server-module.i686  1.0.0-1.fc12  rawhide
> > tigervnc-server-module.i586  1.0.0-2.fc11  updates
> > =====
> > $ rpmdev-vercmp 1.0.0-2.fc11 1.0.0-1.fc12
> > 0:1.0.0-2.fc11 is newer
> >
> > So, it appears that either the release must get a bumped to at
> > least -2 version, or we are going to need a release note to try to
> > explain our way out of this one ?
>
> File a bug against tigervnc, we'll need them to push a 0-day update.

  ah, so there *was* an upgrade issue involving tigervnc.  i feel so
vindicated.  :-)

rday
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