Upgrading to Fedora 8

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Yesterday I tried upgrading yoyride to Fedora 8, to see
how much pain it would be.

After enabling the fedora repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and
tweaking it to make it fetch from version 8, I just did:

  init 3
  yum -y dist-upgrade --exclude poppler
  init 5

Going to init 3 is necessary to conserve memory, otherwise
yum fights with sugar and cranks the system to death.

Excluding poppler precents a dependency problem in our
custom package.

Surprisingly, everything worked perfectly after the update,
until I rebotted.

Then I got into a minor glitch that prevents input hotplug from
working when the X server is run by the unprivileged user olpc
(X is a suid binary).  If I run X manually from the console,
everything works fine.  There's probably a stricter check on
the EUID somewhere in dbus or in hal.

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