Too eager?

[Jon Ciesla]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:30:37 -0400, James wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 20:22 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>     
>>>> Given you are
>>>> trying to update via. yum, just enabling updates-testing should be the
>>>> most fun :). Or you can always just download the above yum, and use yum
>>>> shell to update everything else and yum via. the local file.
>>>>         
>>> And how do I install an F-11 yum RPM in F-10, which lacks python 2.6?
>>> I get the same thing with or without updates-testing for F-11.
>>>       
>>  As I said:
>>
>> 1. yum upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing
>>
>> 2. yumdownloader --repoid=updates-testing yum
>>    cat <<EOL | yum shell
>> upgrade
>> install yum-3.2.23-3.fc11.noarch.rpm
>> run
>> EOL
>>
>>  #1 means you'll get all the other updates from updates-testing, #2 is
>> more typing.
>>     
>
> In #2 one also needs --enablerepo=updates-testing instead of --repoid=...
> and one must be very careful with typos. If Yum cannot find the
> packages given to it via "install", it fails badly with an interrupted
> transaction and (in case of F10 => F11) an unreadible RPM DB that
> needs manual repair.
>
>   
Thanks for the suggestions.  However the first fails as before, and the 
second fails due to libvte being broken, which I understand is being fixed.

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