On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Mark LaPierre <marklapier@aol.com> wrote:
It may be an artifact of people who have trouble being more likely to write to the list, but it seems that people who have Fedup problems seem to outnumber those who have success outright with no problems first try.  That's probably not the case though.

The issues are probably caused by people who add stuff from foreign repos.  How else would you end up with an F18 kernel that was newer than the F19 kernel that you were trying to replace it with?  That doesn't happen to all F18 users does it?  My money is on NO.

No custom kernels... for some reason F18 ended up with 3.9.10 and F19 is still on 3.9.9 (or something like that).

I do have some custom packages, but nothing that would prevent basic functionality, mostly end user apps, and they're all in a local repository which I rebuild F19 packages in most cases. 

fedup only updated about 500 packages. When I got my system fixed enough to run yum update, it still needed about 1100.

My guess at this point is that fedup assumed that because my local repository was "local" (over nfs) that it didn't need to add these packages to /var/lib/fedora-upgrade. If this is indeed the case that is a VERY bad assumption. It's nuts to not include ALL the packages needed for the upgrade transaction. And even if there's a good reason not to (I can't think of one) then if you're missing 1100 packages, it should refuse to do the upgrade.

Richard