Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-04 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 13:23, Martín Marqués wrote: > Just ran yum upgrade --downloadonly, and saw that yum wants to install > a bunch of i686 packages, even though I don't have any packages with > that arch (all x86_64 or noarch). > > preupgrade was doing the same. Are you sure you have no 32 bi

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-04 Thread Martín Marqués
El día 4 de marzo de 2012 09:07, Martín Marqués escribió: > 2012/3/2 Alan Cox : >> On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300 >> Martín Marqués wrote: >> >>> That's all I want (what's in the subject). >>> >>> I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I >>> have /var on another p

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-04 Thread Martín Marqués
2012/3/2 Alan Cox : > On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300 > Martín Marqués wrote: > >> That's all I want (what's in the subject). >> >> I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I >> have /var on another partition. > > Preupgrade randomly fails anyway. Its great when it wo

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 01:36 +0100, suvayu ali wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 22:19, Jim wrote: > > I have tried preupgrade a number of times and it never works right after > > upgrade. > > And it worked every time I tried it! F13->F14, F13->F15, F14->F16 :) Same here, but F12->F13->F14->F15->F1

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-02 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 22:19, Jim wrote: > I have tried preupgrade a number of times and it never works right after > upgrade. And it worked every time I tried it! F13->F14, F13->F15, F14->F16 :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-02 Thread birger
usually it's as simple as running updatedb, then locate .rpmnew and fixing up any config file changes that didn't get applied automatically. then run preupgrade, and once the system is up repeat the same procedure to find new .rpmnew files. when a package being updated discovers that some file

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-02 Thread Jim
On 03/02/2012 03:59 PM, Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300 Martín Marqués wrote: That's all I want (what's in the subject). I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I have /var on another partition. Preupgrade randomly fails anyway. Its great when i

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:01:12 -0300 Martín Marqués wrote: > That's all I want (what's in the subject). > > I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I > have /var on another partition. Preupgrade randomly fails anyway. Its great when it works but it's a bit of a russian

Re: recommend some info on hot to upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade

2012-03-02 Thread James Wilkinson
Martín Marqués wrote: > That's all I want (what's in the subject). > > I've had some headaches with preupgrade, basically, I guess, because I > have /var on another partition. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#preupgrade-bootloader