[ATrpms-users] Problems after fc14 upgrade

[John Pilkington]

On 22/02/12 14:25, George Galt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Larry K<lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I just used yum upgrade to go from fc12 to fc14, and mostly, it went well.
>>   I have the system up, and was able to install the latest nvidia-graphics
>> package using yum.  now, when I try to install mythtv, I get these errors:

> I'm surprised Axel still has Fedora 14 files around.  Fedora 14 went
> EOL in December
> (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003010.html).
>   Fedora 15 works fine.  You really should move up -- or if you want a
> more stable platform, move to CentOS 6.
>
> As for your problem, my guess is that you are running into a problem
> some of us experienced a few weeks back regarding an ABI change to
> some of the Fedora updates files.  It was fixed for FC15 and FC16, but
> since FC14 is EOL, it probably won't get fixed there.

In fact there are newly updated f14 packages there, but I don't imagine 
that will go on for much longer.

I haven't seen any other comments about this news item, which reinforces 
your comment.

> http://nl.zdnet.co.uk/qGne3BDaic/GqDpG

By Ben Woods , 1 February, 2012 12:23
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