what if I reinstall?

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:01 PM, François Patte
<francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
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> Le 13.09.2008 01:08, Kam Leo a écrit :
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:43 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>> Just curious about this with respect to the repo changes
>>>> (and from what I hear more changes yet to come).
>>>>
>>>> Just before the repo disaster, I had to reinstall because
>>>> my disk died.
>>>>
>>>> With the original DVD images still pointing to old repos,
>>>> what happens if someone has to reinstall in a few weeks
>>>> after all the planned repo changes are complete?
>>>>
>>>> Does it "just work", or will they need some manual intervention
>>>> to get updates functioning on a system installed from
>>>> original DVDs?
>>>>
>>>> Just curious - I'm hoping not to need to know :-).
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>>> you need to follow the instructions to obtain any updates (and many of
>>> the updates were sorely needed).
>>>
>>> Craig
>>
>> Why all these uncertainty questions? Have either of you checked any of
>> the F8 and F9 updates repositories? There is only one rpm in F8
>> updates
>
> Quite strange: up to yesterday, asking "yum update" on my f8 system gave
> almost 1GB updates.... (I don't remember how many).
>
> Today, the same command wants to install tetex-xdvi 3.0-41.fc8 which is
> supposed to replace xdvik.x86_64 22.84.13-17.fc9 (?!!) I don't
> understand why for I replaced tetex by texlive as soon as this was
> possible under f8.
>
> The only package to update today is: fedora-release
>
>
> Is there still some mess in the repositories?
>
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> François Patte

That is a possibility. Perhaps your updates mirror was out of sync.
Have you installed fedora-release? It should point your update mirrors
to the updates-newkey repositories.