[mythtv-users] upgrading from ( FC4 + apt-get ) to FC5

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:00:45PM +0200, Franco wrote:
> What happened in previous FC2/3/4 attempts was,
> all the packages that have "atrpms" in their name (for example,
> but it's the same with other repositories, too), were NOT
> upgraded by the installation CD, even if they were base packages,
> so I ended with a system having hundreds of duplicated packages,
> one from the CD, and one from the previous version of the system
> which however had a more recent version.

That sounds like a bug from the installer. While the installer doesn't
(yet!) care about going online and updating the packages from other
repos, it shouldn't create double installs. This only happens when the
installer gets half-way killed in one way or another or you found a
new anaconda bug.

Using anaconda (the CD installs) goes as follows:

o CD in
o Upgrade
o CD out
o Fix the depsolver's config files, e.g. have it point to a decent
  update mirror and the 3rd party repos you need (depsolver=yum/smart/apt).
o Let the depsolver upgrade the rest of your system.

> Then, I run apt-get but it did _NOT_ fix the problem (I believe
> it found the FC3 packages were the latest version and it didn't
> replace them with the corresponding FC4 package).
> 
> So I got a system with all the FC4 packages from the CD
> and all the FC3*atrpms*.rpm packages installed by apt-get

did you point apt's sources to use the FC4 repo? and apt-get update
before doing anything else?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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