[CALUG] Fedora 11/12 and FF 3.5

[Ken Jackson]

Just a note on pre-upgrade:  I used it to upgrade from F10 to F11 and
it worked very well.  But!  A little while later, YUM started failing
to update.

It turned out that it had failed to upgrade 3 .fc10 packages (don't
remember which ones).  Then YUM couldn't figure the dependencies on
anything related.

When I figured it out (with help) and removed the three offending
old packages, everything worked fine again.  But it was a frustrating
couple of weeks.

-Ken Jackson

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:02:05 -0700 (PDT) "Bryan J. Smith" wrote:
> 
> Secondly, don't forget about Pre-Upgrade[1].  It only downloads
> the packages you need to upgrade.  With RPM v4.6 diffs (via
> Spacewalk server and/or YUM plug-in support), this reduces the
> size of the individual packages further.  So that's a combination,
> with two distinct, but complementary, download reducing features.
... 
> [1]  Pre-Upgrade is the Anaconda installer, only it pre-fetches
> the RPMs and installs itself as a GRUB boot option.  I.e., you boot
> from your hard drive into Anaconda, with only the packages you
> need.