[mythtv-users] Upgrading from FC6 to F8/0.21

[R. G. Newbury]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Mar 8, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's no easy direct path from FC6 to 8. You have to go through 7
>>>> first. If you want to avoid upgrading so often. you should consider
>>>> CentOS.
>>> I beg to differ.  I upgraded from FC6 to FC8 by inserting the FC8 dvd,
>>> booting, telling it to upgrade, and coming back after dinner.
>> Oh, I'm glad I'm wrong, then. I tried that and ran into a world of  
>> trouble. Actually, I think that part went relatively smooth, it's when  
>> I rebooted and noticed things didn't go so well for me. Then I did a  
>> yum upgrade and all hell broke loose with missing dependencies and  
>> whatnot. I ended up backing up configs, reformatting my system and  
>> installing FC8 from scratch and it was a much better experience. I  
>> thought I had read that FC6 to 8 was *not* recommended. 
> 
> Its not recommended, and its not supported by RedHat.  But, it can be
> possible.  The Fedora Project Wiki has a page on how to upgrade via yum.
> That's not supported or recommended either.  RedHat would prefer that
> you upgrade to each release when it becomes available as opposed to
> skipping a release.  In truth, you now have to read *both* sets of
> release notes to make sure you don't miss some requirement of the new
> release.  In fact, RedHat recommends that you always *install* the new
> release over the old release in order to have the least amount of
> problems.  But, anaconda still has an "upgrade" option.  Its just not
> meant for release skipping.  Use it at your own risk.  I do.  B^)
> 

The real killer to upgrading to F8 at the moment is that the default 
install enables the fedora-updates repo.  And then when you do the 
recommended and expected yum update after your install, you are dropped 
in dependency hell.

Once you have installed (and the latest respin is a good idea), edit the 
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo file and change the line to 
'enabled=0'.

Then you can update...but it likely will not find much..

As to upgrading or installing...I nuke it all and start again...but in 
part, that's also because I usually change my partitioning.


Geoff