Basically the same kind of failure as the last several times I did updates. This time f16->f17. Used preupgrade.
It seems to have all gone wrong when cpio failed, because a python package had been installed using pip into the (default) system dirs. The conflict IIRC happens because pip installs a dir where cpio expects a file (or vice-versa). I've since learned to use pip install --user instead - but there was still a leftover package. I was happy (temporarily) to see that I could still reboot the machine. Remove the offending package. Then IIRC I restarted the upgrade. It seemed to complete OK. I was pleased to see it appear to continue from where it left off. On reboot, I found a huge mess. Duplicate packages (f16/f17) all over. So, 1) Could I have actually recovered from this mess without a complete re-install? 2) Can't we make the install fail more gracefully? 3) Would it be possible to continue an failed install, and have it actually work? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
