On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 09:42 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
I currently have Fedora 9 installed, and I'm trying to preupgrade
to
Fedora 10 using preupgrade. However, preupgrade is complaining of a large
number of dependency issues (see complete log below).
The only 3rd-part yum source or RPMs I have come from adobe and skype. The
dependency messages don't reference any of these RPMs. I have just "yum
update"d, and still see the issue (I saw the same general problem both
before and after).
Questions:
1) If I go ahead and upgrade anyway, will my system be left in a
consistent (or even working) state?
It should be fine. If preupgrade didn't pop up an error dialog about
these problems, then they're non-fatal, and can be ignored.
anaconda deliberately ignores dependency problems of this type, so
preupgrade tries to do the same - which is why it ignored them instead
of stopping the upgrade process or displaying an error message.
2) If I upgrade using the CD/DVD instead, will I just hit the same
issues?
These same dependency issues will still be there, but no, they shouldn't
prevent you from upgrading. They might not even be logged.
3) ob-relevance-to--devel: I though there were automated regular
scripts
running now to detect this kind of dependency issue? I guess I'm
mistaken...
No, we check for some dependency problems with (e.g.) F10 updates and
F10 updates-testing, but we don't yet compare F9 and F10.
-w