Re: new FC1 install problems

From: Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz_at_uni-bielefeld.de)
Date: 05/03/04

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    Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:20:05 +0200
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    Am Mo, den 03.05.2004 schrieb Gene Heskett um 03:31:

    > Greetings;
    >
    > My main box lost its ability to run anything gtk or gnome related, so I put in
    > FC1 disk1 and did an upgrade from my well modified RH8.0 install. Running
    > gcc3.2, kde3.2, qt3.2 and the best kernel so far, 2.6.5-mm6.

    [ snipped the story ]

    > Where do I go from here folks?
    >
    > No Cheers for FC1 at this point, Gene

    Gene,

    your are either very, very optimistic or blue eyed. At least you
    overestimate what an automatic upgrade process can handle. And that is
    no limitation of Fedora nor of RPM in specific.

    You did not say, but I guess all the never software versions on your RH8
    were installed from source and where no RPM packages. So how should the
    package manager handle that situation? And even it were RPM installed
    packages, it had to handle dependencies and downgrading to versions FC1
    does deliver. And on top there is the situation that FC1 is not kernel
    2.6 ready. Of course not to forget that even your system was broken
    before you started upgrading (you mentioned that in your first
    sentence).

    Conclusion: all that was to be expected. In cases of such heavily
    customized installations - your RH8 did not look any more like RH8 -
    there is only the way of a fresh new install.

    Alexander 

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