On Dec 6, 2007 3:11 PM, Doran L. Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not long ago, Andres Gonzalez proclaimed... > > I currently have a Fedora 7 box up and running. However, I am getting > > a lot of Kernel Bug messages in my dmesg output. So, I am thinking of > > upgrading to Fedora 8 since I have a Fedora 8 CD. > > > > My question is this: If I update to Fedora 8, will the install > > procedure blow away my current lib directory or will it just add to it > > any updated libraries? > > If you do the upgrade, it will IN THEORY not overwrite anything you've > added to the box. > > > The reason for my question is that I currently have the Intel C++ > > compiler installed on the Fedora 7 box. When I installed it, it did > > not support Fedora 7 so I had to go get a few earlier versions of some > > of the standard libraries just so the Intel compiler was happy. I do > > not want to go thru that again and would want the Fedora 8 upgrade > > procedure to just add any new libraries, run times, kernel, etc, and > > not blow away any existing stuff. > > The upgrade process is not without its flaws. IMO, you should do a fresh > install and reinstall the Intel compiler in /usr/local or in /opt where you > can back it up as needed in the future.
May I point you to my blog which does a beautiful yum upgrade. http://fedora-tutorials.com/2007/11/10/werewolf-fedora-8-upgrade-in-3-easy-steps/ Cheers, Clint /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
