[Server-devel] iso size

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 11:23:35 EST 2008


On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Well, the upgrade is not painful. The weird thing I found is about yum,
> $releasever, and fedora-updates.repo, we have two issues..
>
> First with the use of xs-release  when I do a "rpm -q --whatprovides
> /etc/fedora-release" I get back:
> fedora-release-7-3.noarch
> xs-release-9-0.4.12.noarch
> which will confuse the heck out of yum if you have $releasever anywhere.
>
> I guess we should have xs-release do:
> Obsoletes: fedora-release

Ah, that only happens on an update, correct?

> Second, I found the above because I did a "yum repolist" and the
> fedora-update repo from the F7 install was active. Need to remove that one,
> maybe from xs-release?

Well, it's gone from xs-release -- why does it show up as active?
Maybe we have to recommend a manual step, but what would that be?

cheers,



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