Re: problem upgrading distro via yum

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Casey Boone wrote:
> 
> normally I would but in this case broken stuff includes packages
> required by yum.
> 
> once I have the opportunity I am going to try the earlier suggestion
> of skip-broken and manual fix up with rpm
> 
> >
> > General rule of thumb: uninstall broken stuff and reinstall after the upgrade.
> >

Is this a live update or is this an update from CDROM/DVD media.

At this point you will have skipped the broken and may now need to
tidy up.   In general a major number update done from media is 
quicker, much less painful and much better tested.

In the cleanup steps look at the yum man page for options like 
check-update, group-install, grouplist, --obsoletes and most
helpfull to me in the past "yum list extras".

Inspect the result of "rpm -qa" for things that do not make sense.





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