Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Jun 25 05:15:59 UTC 2009


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> What may work is an anaconda mode that does not look up for network
> updates and runs yum in --skip-broken mode (and --skip-broken to be
> improved, right now there are still some cases where it gives up when
> some uprades would have been possible)

Then the F10+updates -> F11 upgrade will be mostly a no-op (e.g. the F10 KDE
requires the old openssl which prevents upgrading almost everything
else). --skip-broken is not a magic bullet, if everything's broken, it
won't do much good.

        Kevin Kofler




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