[Novalug] Advantages of server based on CentOS/Ubuntu, etc?

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Matt Thompson wrote:

>
> I was *required* to do this for Fedora 8 this year.  My box 
> fell prey to the infamous depsolve bug #372011 since I had 
> packages from Livna.
>
> Turns out, I really like the non-CD method and will probably 
> use it from now on.  Anaconda is really good with initial 
> install, but has just never worked well for upgrades in my 
> experience.  Of course, that's probably due to me using a lot 
> of outside packages.

 	depsolve, huh? I never did hear why it was; but the 
fedora.general list on gmane was full of people who could install 
from the initial F8 DVD, but couldn't upgrade.

 	When I finally got to Jo's machine, the respins were out; 
I asked if they could do upgrades, and was assured they could.

 	Then I had such a fight getting a usable respin with 
jigdo that I finally just did a fresh install, and copied her 
stuff back onto it.

 	*After* that, of course, an excellent individual by the 
name of RJB Day put up a page of a 'Fedora Cookbook' he's 
writing, which clarified stuff enough so that I did get one.

 	I tried it on a thinkpad which was already running F8, 
but hadn't been updated in a couple days. It added two things, 
and yum update did nothing after that. If I can remember not to 
update it for a few days (usually over ssh, since it lives in the 
guest room), I'll try the re-spin again ....

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