[ATrpms-users] F7 to F8 upgrade

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:19:03PM +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> On Saturday 10 November 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:00:20PM +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Since the F8 DVD is completely broken regarding upgrading (tried 3
> > > systems, all fail) I'm now trying to upgrade via yum.
> > >
> > > One of the issues I have is the enabled F7 ATrpms repository. I can
> > > disable that but I would prefer to enable the ATrpms F8 repository
> > > straight away when I'm upgrading.
> > >
> > > Is this possible  ?
> >
> > Yes, that should work. But if the DVD upgrading fails I think yum
> > update will fail as well. Usually yum is more fragile than the DVD
> > upgrade method (although the latter uses yum, too, it is more
> > agressive and cares less about depedendencies).
> 
> Well, the upgrade by DVD fails because of a bug I think. The F8 dvd upgrade 
> fails on all my systems and has already been reported my many to fail, it 
> just spins forever at checking dependencies and seems to use 100% CPU time.
> 
> Running the upgrade via the net seems to work but it also seems that ATrpms 
> currently has some issues from here. Sometimes it's available and sometimes 
> not. Anyway, I will try until I have all packages in. I believe it will work 
> since yum manages to resolve all dependencies fine.

On every Fedora release ATrpms is being hit quite hard the first
couple of days. It then gradually gets back to normal.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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