best way to upgrade an FC6.i686 to F8.x86_64 - don't - fresh install instead.

[Bill Davidsen]

David Timms wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

>> by losing the list of all of my installed RPMs (so I can re-create my
>> system after the architecture change).
> rpm -qa --qf="%{name} ">rpms-installed.txt
> This makes one long line of space separated package names. You might 
> need to separate them into blocks that aren't too big for the yum 
> command line to have trouble with.
> 
I usually do "yum list '*'" and save to a file. You can then grep for 
"installed" to find out exactly what version of everything you have. Do 
*not* forget to backup you list of repositories unless you manage to 
live without livna, freshrpms, etc.

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