On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Chris Lumens <clumens(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > The arch of the release of Fedora you are upgrading to
appears to be i586
> > which does not match your previously installed arch of i686. This is likely to
> > not succeed. Are you sure you wish to continue the upgrade process?"
> > Answer "No" to abort process.
> >
> > It's odd enough that the installer is guessing - "the release of
> > Fedora you are upgrading to appears to be i586" - that's not
> > instilling much confidence is this already! :)
> > To top that, "This is likely to not succeed."
> >
> > Anyone care to enlighten me as to will, most assuredly, succeed.
> > That's what I would rather use....
>
> The message is bogos and should be removed to avoid confusing users.
> Please file a bug.
I've entered
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498280
No, this particular instance of the message is bogus. The message
itself serves a very important role: preventing people from trying to
upgrade an x86-64 install with an i586 tree, for instance.
Anyway what release is this? This should have been fixed way back in
the end of March.
Is it preferred to Reopen a previous bz, if one existed?
Thanks,
jerry