On Friday November 30 2007 9:07:42 am Gene Heskett wrote: > I tried a yum upgrade 2 or 3 weeks ago, but it failed > litterally hundreds of dependency thingy's. Maybe didn't do > it right, good instructs are hard to find. Pointers, url's > welcomed. > > Thanks, Claude. I did the following: I manually downloaded the release rpm for F8 and installed it for the Fedora repos and some of the other repos that I use (I think I found a couple of others including Livna) I then went through each of my .repo files in yum.repos.d and changed those that hadn't been updated (this usually involved looking at the URL's and changing each 'F7' to 'F8' I made sure that the repos I want to use were enabled, and those that I don't were not after the above procedure (in my case, I use Freshrpms, not Livna, so I had to disable Livna after installing the release rpm for Livna - I have Livna installed for occasional use, but I normally have it disabled) I then installed the latest kernel (I don't know if this is necessary, but, it was suggested in one of the howto's I used) I then ran yum update - this found a huge number of packages and failed on a couple of dependencies (yes, only a couple, not hundreds) I removed the packages that were causing problems - in no instance were they things I couldn't do without, at least for the purposes of the upgrade I ran yum update a second time, and this time it worked - on both machines, there were about 1400 packages that got upgraded This is how it worked for me. Obviously, YMMV -- my repos are: Freshrpms (enabled) Adobe-linux (enabled) Dries (disabled) Dag (disabled) Livna (disabled) Fedora (Fedora and Fedora-updates enabled, the rest disabled) atrpms (disabled) Skype (enabled) KDE-redhat (KDE-redhat - stable and testing enabled) jpackage (disabled) planetccrma (disabled) olib-fedora (disabled) I can't remember where I found the howtos I used - I seem to remember following some suggestions posted to this list -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
