FC7->FC8 Upgrade via YUM

[Charles Jones]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:22 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
>   
>> Just thought I would post that I successfully upgraded my FC7 to FC8 via 
>> YUM, and it went pretty smoothly. I first manually downloaded the 
>> fedora-release* packages from an FC8 repo mirror, and installed them via 
>> "rpm -Uvh fedora*".  Then I did a "yum clean all" followed by "yum 
>> upgrade". After downloading and installing 1.1GB of new packages, I am 
>> now up and running FC8.
>>
>> So far I have noticed that for some reason my main fonts have 
>> changed...definitely larger point size. I checked my theme config and it 
>> was set to "custom" for some reason. I set it to the "Fedora" theme and 
>> it had no effect. I was previously using the nvidia drivers from the 
>> livna repo (which seem to work better for dual head), so that could have 
>> something to do with it. I no longer see the nvidia logo when X starts 
>> up, so I think I'm no longer using it, but dual head still works fine.
>>
>> Another thing I noticed is that I no longer have an issue with booting 
>> while my Logitech Webcam is plugged in. With FC7 it would for some 
>> reason set the webcam as my primary sound device (it has a mic 
>> built-in), and so my normal sound would not work unless I booted with 
>> the webcam unplugged. I could then plug it in later and all would work 
>> fine.  This issue seems to be fixed now, not sure if new kernel did it, 
>> or if its the new sound drivers.
>>     
> -----
> dude - forgive me because I am such a slacker. I should have pointed you
> toward this...
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq?highlight=%28upgrade%29%7C%
> 28yum%29
>
> There is some real valuable info here
>   
Thanks! I've done yum distro upgrades many times (even some pretty crazy 
remotely performed ones like RH7.2->FC6). That is indeed a useful page, 
as in the past I had to learn the hard way about things like the libata 
changing all hda devices to sda.

I'm glad to see they have some notes on FC7->FC8. Looks like I'm glad my 
desktop isn't x86_64 or I would have had a lot more problems! Nice to 
see that  there is apparently a flash plugin available now.  I'm still 
using:

# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

I'm going to do that sound-and-video groupinstall, so I can play around 
with PulseAudio.

-Charles
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