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

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Jim Beard grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 10/24/2011 02:56 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> Have you run /usr/sbin/remove-unused-packages  ?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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 instal=
l
> 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.)

I agree with you on that point. :-)  But it definitely sounds useful for
saving space on my system, since I don't use any of those other
languages, nor does anyone who has access to it. :-)

I've been a little hesitant to run that command *just yet*.  I've still
got one odd message when running the --auto-update that I haven't yet
been able to resolve (there were actually several to start with, but
apparently my big update yesterday and --auto-orphans took care of them,
since there's only one showing at the moment:

> A requested package cannot be installed:
> lib64kexiv2_8-4.5.67-1mdv2011.0.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied libexiv2.so.=
9()(64bit))

As soon as that's resolved, I'll be running the command you mention above=
=2E

                 --Dave


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