Thought I would try updating to F8 via developement repo.

leadgolem · #1 6th November 2007, 02:11 PM

Well, my primary hard drive borked about an hour ago. So, I thought I would reinstall fedora 7 x86_64, enable the development repo and update. I'm currently downloading update 204 of 1282. I will be posting any issues I encounter, or not, here.

I love doing things for the sake of finding out what will happen.

FriedChips · #2 6th November 2007, 02:16 PM

sweet, good luck man!!

RahulSundaram · #3 7th November 2007, 12:22 AM

Hi,

Yep. Feedback on that would be very useful. Thanks.

leadgolem · #4 7th November 2007, 12:32 AM

Hmm, lets see. GPG key not installed, and needed to remove compiz due to package conflicts.

RahulSundaram · #5 7th November 2007, 01:20 AM

Hi,

Rawhide packages are not signed so you do need to disable that check. What caused the compiz conflict? Was compiz from the Fedora repository?

leigh123linux · #6 7th November 2007, 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RahulSundaram

Hi,

Rawhide packages are not signed so you do need to disable that check. What caused the compiz conflict? Was compiz from the Fedora repository?

I had a similar conflict on compiz-fusion ( libwnck.so) and had to remove a couple more orphaned packages to upgrade (F7 to F8).

leadgolem · #7 7th November 2007, 01:51 AM

The conflict was with the preinstalled compiz package. It conflicted with gnome-compiz.

As far as the gpgkey goes, I just used the --nogpgcheck option.

EDIT: You know, I really have to say, I'm impressed with how well my bluetooth was handled. Much better then any previos Fedora version I've used.

Dies · #8 7th November 2007, 01:53 AM

Code:

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install     78 Package(s)         
Update     878 Package(s)         
Remove       1 Package(s)         

Total download size: 1.0 G

Ouch

Should know how it went in an hour or so..

Had to remove Beryl due to conflicts.

Also had to remove Synfig, but that's to be expected.

leadgolem · #9 7th November 2007, 01:57 AM

Before you do this you might want to install "yum-fastestmirror" and "yum-presto". I have all the dev tools installed and only had 1.1gb to download.

Dies · #10 7th November 2007, 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leadgolem

Before you do this you might want to install "yum-fastestmirror" and "yum-presto". I have all the dev tools installed and only had 1.1gb to download.

Thanks, but no thanks. I haven't tried "fastest-mirror" recently but the last time I did was enough for me.

I have a pretty good connection so I'm not worried.
I started the update +/- 10 minutes ago and it's already at 510/956.

Dies · #11 7th November 2007, 04:02 AM

Looks like a fresh install for me.

Though I'm sure this one can be rescued, I'm also sure it's not worth the effort to me.

Yum decided to take a much needed break after installing selinux-policy, which is fine, but unfortunately Yum never punched back in.

leadgolem · #12 7th November 2007, 06:32 AM

Well, I've had one complete system halt. Just after installing kmod-nvidia from livna. Happened in Fedora 7 too though. Changing to the kmod-nvidia-96xx driver now.

Edit: Well, it looks like for the moment my nvidia driver is borked. I seem to missing something called nvidia.ko.

leadgolem · #13 7th November 2007, 07:06 AM

All in all, I'd recommend a fresh install.

#14 7th November 2007, 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leadgolem

All in all, I'd recommend a fresh install.

If they don't fix the problem I'm having here there's going to be no install

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=170863

It's probably too late now anyway, the final must be getting ready to hit the mirrors. I don't want to do a text install and hope an xorg update fixes things, it's just not as flexible in choosing packages as a GUI install

and I'd rather not sitting picking bits and pieces and their dependencies for removal later, like Bluetooth and other stuff!

Wayne

Axklor · #15 7th November 2007, 08:44 AM

Downloading the F8-rc3 DVD via torrent and awaiting the final release to hit is working out pretty sweet for me so far.

I noticed an "8" directory appear on livna and was synced with livna-development as of this morning so I manually copied/edited my livna-development file to match.

I had to disable a bunch of things to get rc3 to boot on my Dell Latitude D620 but re-enabling them in the installed kernel afterwards worked.

I can say I am very impressed with Fedora 8 so far.