On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:01 PM, François Patte <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 13.09.2008 01:08, Kam Leo a écrit : >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 :-). >>> ---- >>> 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? > > - -- > 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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
