How to upgrade a F11 alpha to current rawhide?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 3 21:57:15 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 16:51 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> 2009/3/3 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>:
> > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:13:42 +0100
> > Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I installed F11 alpha (which went really good btw, good job!), but due
> >> to the rpm changes listed here
> >> ( https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-February/msg02130.html )
> >> I can not get alpha to an up to date rawhide state. I tried
> >> installing the rpms listed in the email but got some problems due to
> >> db4 dependencies. When I tried to install newer db4 versions using
> >> yum and rpm I got md5 problems.
> >>
> >> Could anyone make a step-by-step guide to update F11 alpha to current
> >> rawhide?
> >
> > The above email is now out of date.
> >
> > You need to:
> >
> > yum update rpm\*
> >
> > and then
> >
> > yum update
> >
> > and you should be ok.
> >
> Isn't there another problem, with the 4.3.0 prerelease version of RPM
> in alpha not being able to install the current Rawhide RPMs? You might
> have to download the latest version of RPM from Fedora 10 updates,
> install it, and then update as normal.
> 

4.6.0 you mean and no it works right now.

4.6.0 in alpha can install what's in rawhide right now. Panu rebuild the
rawhide rpm to do that.

-sv





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