F11 upgrade i[36]86 to i586 Arch warning

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Wed Apr 29 17:07:05 UTC 2009


> > The arch of the release of Fedora you are upgrading to appears to be i586
> > which does not match your previously installed arch of i686. This is likely to
> > not succeed. Are you sure you wish to continue the upgrade process?"
> > Answer "No" to abort process.
> >
> > It's odd enough that the installer is guessing - "the release of
> > Fedora you are upgrading to appears to be i586" - that's not
> > instilling much confidence is this already! :)
> > To top that, "This is likely to not succeed."
> >
> > Anyone care to enlighten me as to will, most assuredly, succeed.
> > That's what I would rather use....
> 
> The message is bogos and should be removed to avoid confusing users.
> Please file a bug.

No, this particular instance of the message is bogus.  The message
itself serves a very important role:  preventing people from trying to
upgrade an x86-64 install with an i586 tree, for instance.

Anyway what release is this?  This should have been fixed way back in
the end of March.

- Chris




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