Failed attempt to "upgrade" to rawhide

[Michael Favia]

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Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 14:11 -0600, Michael Favia wrote:
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> 
>>Do i need to wait for monolithic x to go the way of the dodo bird before
>>making this upgrade or is there a path i can't find? I'm going furthe
>>and further back in the mailing list but no luck yet. Help appreciated.
> 
> 
> Almost every time I have yum updated to rawhide (which is how I do so
> before Test release CD's are available) it involves some yum magic to do
> so - either by excluding certain packages or by removing some.
> 
> You will want to remove any packages that yum complains about xorg-devel
> with - as of yesterday, that's only a few (though there may be some in
> extras).
> 
> You also want to make sure you have a recent fc4 kernel, and remove the
> old fc4 kernels - as the old kernels will conflict with some rawhide
> packages.
> 
Thanks for the reply. I probably should have self-replied because with a
little additional yum magic I managed to proceed happily the next
afternoon. Thanks anyway. -mf
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