Re: preupgrade stuck

Gerry Reno wrote:
> dependencies. So what good is '--skip-broken' if it isn't going to skip 
> anything?
I imagine that each noted 'broken' package also depended on other 
packages being upgradable, which eventually leads to marking all 
packages as broken, and hence nothing to do.

Differing from F9-10 for example, F11 is fully rebuilt with a new gcc, 
and sporting an i586 binary type. This might require the upgrade to be 
an all or nothing situation.

I didn't notice if you have tried doing eg yum update rpm yum first, in 
case that helps.

Also the noting which packages yum is having trouble with might lead you 
to a method to upgrade manually.

package-cleanup --orphans
might tell you installed packages that might be needing updates, but 
that are not part of your transaction set/upgrade.

If you don't want to uninstall orphans, I think you could rpm -e 
--justdb (from memory), so that they stay installed during the upgrade, 
but then rpm reinstall --justdb afterwards.

DaveT.