[ATrpms-users] Upgrade to FC6: almost painless

[Monkey Pet]

My upgrade path was far more painful.  I had it working in the end, but I
decided to bite the bullet and reinstall the FC6 as a clean install in the
end.

On 1/10/07, Claude Boucher <mythtv.user at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I usually hate upgrading my production boxes. Taking a perfectly
> well-oiled system and replacing all the basic packages usually makes me
> antsy, since you never know when you'll get it back online. But, I
> guess  it's all part of the fun of running Fedora Core.
>
> Needless to say, I was pretty nervous when I inserted the first Zod
> CD-ROM in my dad's MythTV system yesterday afternoon. After a few
> manoeuvres, both the install and the major yum update went very well
> (which is quite a testimony for all the hard work going on behind the
> scenes!), except for a few things:
>
> 1- I had to downgrade nvidia-graphics from 9746 to 9742. It seems the
> packages are still available for FC5.i386 but they don't exist for
> FC6.i386.
>
> 2- The problem with conflicting versions of faac, mentioned by Javier
> Perez, last week. In order to avoid a conflict between Axel's version
> (currently 1.25-1) and the one from freshrpms (1.25-2), yum update with
> the --excluderepo freshrpms switch. Then, yum update your freshrpms
> packages with - x faac. The box is working fine with ATrpms' version of
> the package until Matthias and Axel talk it over.
>
> 3- There are still a few traces of FC5 in there, and I don't know if I
> should remove them. The offending packages are:
>
> libavc1394_0-0.5.30_10.fc5.at (15K)
> librom1394_0-0.5.30_10.fc5.at (13K)
>
> They don't seem to do much and they're tiny. Should I remove them?
>
> Claude
>
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