[ATrpms-users] FC5 to FC8 upgrade attempt

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Nov 26, 2007 3:54 AM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>
wrote:

> Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but my attempted
> yum upgrade of my FC5 system to FC8 is snagged 3 or 4  dependancy
> errors, listed below (3 of them from ATRPMs).
>
>
I am not a system administrator, but for what I have seen so far, people
would
do FC5 -> FC6 -> F7 -> F8, that is, in three steps.



>
>
> Amazing!  why are the fc5 kmdls (and the Livna kmod-nvidia) holding up
> my upgrade?  each kernel module is listed in yum.conf as:
>
> installonlypkgs="kernel,ivtv-kmdl,lirc-kmdl,video4linux-kmdl,kmod-nvidia"
>
> Why are they trying to be upgraded?  Shouldn't the new versions just be
> installed with the new kernel?
>
>

I would remove all kmdls and kmods and install then later, after a
successful upgrade.

But a clean install would have been faster ...

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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