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From: "Neal Becker" <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:42:30 PM
Subject: another upgrade, another disaster
[SNIP]
On reboot, I found a huge mess. Duplicate packages (f16/f17) all
over.
I did the upgrade using yum and ended up with the same end result. The steps to prepare
the /usr split worked fine but when I brought the system back up after all was said and
done I found I had both fc16 and fc17 versions of most if not all packages.
So,
1) Could I have actually recovered from this mess without a complete
re-install?
I eventually hit it with a hammer and did yum remove '*fc16*', when I reviewed the
resultant transaction there were a handful of fc17 packages also removed as a result of
dependencies but these were easily installed again, pulling in their fc17 dependencies
instead. At this point I now appear to have a stable system and everything working,
we'll see how long that lasts for though ;).
2) Can't we make the install fail more gracefully?
3) Would it be possible to continue an failed install, and have it
actually
work?
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