Re: F7 to F8 upgrade - Anaconda nightmare

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On Dec 2, 2007 5:53 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I tried upgrading a ThinkPad T43 from Fedora 7 to 8
> > > and met the familiar hanging syndrome.
> > >
> > > I followed the recipe
> > > at <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common>,
> > > downloading
> > > <http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/updates-f8-yumloop.img>
> > > and appending "updates" to the kernel command.
> > >
> > > The latter seemed to work, since /tmp/updates
> > > contained the updates*.img file
> > > (and all other files in the same directory).
> > >
> > > However, I saw no evidence that the updates*.img file
> > > was actually invoked.
> > > In any case, the hanging was not cured.
> > >
> > > I wondered how anaconda knows which file to use to update?
> > > Does it use all *.img files?
> > > Is one meant to change the name of the downloaded file?
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell, Anaconda upgrade has not worked
> > > for most people - it worked for me on one computer,
> > > but not on a second.
> > > This is not good;
> > > if the developers cannot get anaconda to upgrade reasonably well
> > > they should remove the option.
> > >
> > > As a practical matter, I did not see any way
> > > of determining what exactly anaconda was doing
> > > during the eternal "Checking dependencies ...".
> > > If one knew it was stuck checking dependencies on one file
> > > it would be easy to tell that the process had failed.
> > > As it is, there seems to be no way of knowing
> > > except to wait for several hours.
> > >
> > > Anaconda: 1 out of 10.
> >
> > You may want to consider upgrading your machines with yum. Check:
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> >
> > Maybe, in the future, the yum way will be the recommended method to
> > upgrade Fedora distributions. (Ubuntu does so already.) For now, it
> > seems to work well, although they say
>
> When did Ubuntu switch to yum? I though they were apt and dpkg based.

Oops! Apt-get, in fact.

Paul


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