FWIW, I did an in-place upgrade via Yum (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq) and it is viable - in fact I did the upgrade+reboot remotely; R and mingw-cross both seem to survive the upgrade. $ rpm -qa |wc -l 2050 $ rpm -qa |grep 'fc6' |wc -l 149 $ rpm -qa |grep 'fc7' |wc -l 1295
Before upgrade I had 1984 rpm's. One strangeness I noticed about emacs is that it stays at the splash screen and doesn't display the specified file to be edited until control-L. HTL Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Marc, > > Thanks for the report. We had noted the release date for F7 as one of the > milestones to take account of in scheduling 2.5.1, and thought we might > just know an early adopter. Unfortunately the other milestone (the > release of gcc 4.2.0 for MinGW has not happened on the promised date, June > 1, AFAICS). > > [Before anyone asks, 2.5.1 is not yet scheduled.] > > Brian > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Marc Schwartz wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just a quick heads up that I made the plunge into F7 this week. >> >> R version 2.5.0 Patched (2007-06-05 r41831) compiles and passes make >> check-all. F7 is using: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gcc --version >> gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12) >> >> >> Some quick F7 notes: >> >> 1. Do a clean install rather than an 'in place' upgrade from FC6 or a >> prior version. There are a lot of changes, not the least of which is the >> consolidation of Extras and Core into a single release. >> >> 2. There will be some '.fc6' suffixed RPMS installed if there were no >> changes from the FC6 versions. I have 91 of them, out of a total of 1545 >> installed RPMS. Note that the F7 version RPM suffix is 'fc7', not >> 'f7' ... >> >> 3. There are some issues with SELinux and policies, so I have reverted >> to running in 'Permissive' mode for the time being. >> >> 4. Do not use 'rhgb' (the Red Hat Graphical Boot) on the kernel boot >> parameters in grub.conf. Especially if (like me) there are boot time >> prompts (such as dmcrypt-LUKS passphrases) that need to be input during >> boot. This interaction requires going from graphical to text mode and >> back, presumably switching virtual terminals. This may be unique to >> nVidia based video hardware, but there seems to be some issues with VT >> switching, which also seems to cause problems for the 'Fast User >> Switching' features new to F7. The symptoms include partially drawn >> windows, incomplete logins and X freezes. >> >> 5. Emacs 22 has been released and is part of F7. From a quick look, it >> would appear that the 'xft/anti-aliasing' font support available from >> the CVS branch of 22 is not part of the formal stable release tree. Thus >> I will continue to use the version 23 Unicode branch from CVS, along >> with the latest ECB (cvs snap) and CEDET (1.0pre4 was just released >> today) tool versions. >> >> 6. The rumors/intentions of TeXLive being part of F7 were premature and >> teTeX is still in place. This is apparently due to the decision on the >> part of the Fedora leadership folks that TeXLive is not yet ready for >> prime time. >> >> >> Other than that, things seem to be well, but I suspect that there will >> be many updates coming in the first 30 days or so...the Fedora lists >> have been quite busy... >> >> HTH, >> >> Marc Schwartz >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
