On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, David wrote:
On 3/5/2009 7:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> here's the current situation if anyone wants to suggest tests. i
> have my two gateway MX7120s installed with fedora 11 alpha -- one with
> i386, the other with x86_64 -- virtually identically (about 1550
> packages on each).
> the first difference is that, at the end of the install, when i
> rebooted, the i386 install rebooted cleanly while the x86_64 install
> flashed a screenful of kernel diagnostics on its way down, but it
> still booted cleanly coming back up again. not sure what that was all
> about.
> at this point, before i do *anything*, should i take note of the
> current setup in any way? suggestions? my first step would be to
> update the yum/rpm packages but, to do that, i would first update
> "fontpackages-filesystem" since its original packaging conflicted with
> "rpm-build" which i installed, so my proposed first step would be:
> # yum update fontpackages-filesystem
> # yum update rpm\*
> # yum update yum
> does that make sense? but even before i do that, i'm still open to
> what i should record in terms of current config.
> thoughts?
Do I understand correctly that these are *not* updated to current
Rawhide yet?
you understand that correctly -- they are fresh off the original
DVDs.
If so you would probably need to do the x86 and x86_64 updates in
small stages. Rawhide x86 was rebuild from i386 to i586 recently so
I would think that most, if not *all*, of the packages installed
would be an 'update' on the x86 install.
That would hold true for the x86_64 install too for the x86 packages
installed there.
and yet, that was one of the issues -- whether (after upgrading the
fundamental yum and rpm* packages), i should simply be able to type
"yum update" and go drink beer. some people claimed that they had
done exactly that -- my experience was otherwise.
so what's the story here? are you saying that that should *not* be
expected to succeed? if not, that's pretty important information.
rday
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