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Old 12-02-2007, 11:07 AM   #1
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upgrade problem via yum


i can understand how this is gonna sound a tad stupid ...but i tried to follow the http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrading-...top-to-fedora8 instructions to upgrade via yum, now my question is ...how do i revert to the fedora7 repos ?...
 
Old 12-02-2007, 11:50 AM   #2
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If you have upgraded to Fedora 8, why do you need to use the Fedora 7 repos? Did the upgrade go wrong?
 
Old 12-02-2007, 12:33 PM   #3
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nope, about 3 gb worth of packages got downloaded but they never updated ...i was asleep so i can't give you the ym readout ut i guess it was some sort of dependency conflict.....now if i try to update i get the same 3gb of packages for updates ...any way i can make yum use the fedora7 repos again ?
 
Old 12-02-2007, 06:24 PM   #4
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You need to download and install the fedora-release rpm for Fedora 7 from a Fedora mirror.
 
Old 12-02-2007, 06:47 PM   #5
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well that seamed obviouse enough ..erm, my bad 10x ..cheers
 
  


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