>>>>> "H" == Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Is there any other cleaner way to induce the installation
>> process to run rpm -Uvh --force to do complete updates of /all/
>> installed distro packages?
H> Most definitely. upgrading like that won't work at all. You have
H> to use the upgrade via the instalation process.
I was afraid of that.
H> But then again, it still is a tedious process that can easily
H> fail.
The install has already failed, so there's very little to lose in
trying.
H> The best thing to do is to back up and to reinstall. But nobody
H> ever listens to that advice.
mostly because it would be tremendously tedious and still not
foolproof. I would need to sift all of /etc, /var and /home to backup
all user and locally changed config files, and I would still run the
risk that re-instating one of these changes would put me right back
where I am now.
Besides, I thought only Windows resorted to "reformat and reinstall
everything" as a solution ;)
On the plus side, if I must do this, I will have the opportunity to
convert my usr partition to ext3, but on the downside, out of two
machines in our lab running Mandrake, /both/ were hopelessly corrupted
upgrading to 9.0.
I could excuse my own machine's woes because it has years of cruft and
impatient hacks in it, but the other was a clean 8.2 install yet it
exhibits all the same upgrade failure symptoms. That does not bode
well for 9.0. At the very least, it would be nice to know what
conditions caused the failure so it can be anticipated in 9.1
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