Re: Not such a smooth upgrade to 2011... Help?

On 10/24/2011 02:56 PM, David Guntner wrote:

> I've got the urpmi --auto-update running now and it seems to be going.
> I already know I've got a few items that I'm gonna have to go back and
> do manually since it said it couldn't upgrade them due to some missing
> dependency or other.  I'll have to see how that turns out.  When it's
> all done I'll again try removing the entry from skip.list and see if
> it's *really* going to keep harping on me about the kernels.

Have you run /usr/sbin/remove-unused-packages  ?

Among other things, this should get rid of 40 or 50 locales that 
you do not use (a few varieties of Chinese, etc).  If you have 
not run this command, you may have all available locales, and the 
initrd for that is large, especially if created by dracut.

Do note that the removal may get carried away and you may have to 
put some things back.  It is highly recommended by most, though. 
  (I install into a 100GB partition, and let the installer add 
all the localization/internationalization stuff that it is 
willing to add, on the theory that a computer system worthy of 
the name should support all commonly used languages by default.)

Cheers!

jim b.


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