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Fedora 8 is now live. It's honestly the first distro I've used in my 10ish years with Linux that out of the box, actually looks pretty good. Check out what's new in the release notes.

As per previous posts I'm interested in getting Fedora to a point where live upgrades are supported and recommended. I did my live upgrade to the pre-Fedora 8 rawhide a week or two ago without too much trouble. Following the steps on the YumUpgradeFaq got me most of the way but today I pushed onward to do my final update to the actual Fedora 8 bits and ran into a bit of a snag with avahi.


file /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf from install of avahi-0.6.21-6.fc8 conflicts with file from package avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7

rpm -qa | grep avahi showed me several versions installed and the fc7 one obviously shouldn't be. yum remove avahi-0.7.17-1.fc7 claimed success, yet the package remained installed. rpm -e avahi-0.7.17-1.fc7 would give me a scriptlet error. jbowes pointed me to rpm -e --noscripts avahi-0.7.17-1.fc7 which will get you past that problem.

Next up a similar problem with multilib. I think this has something to do with the dbus.i386 that must be removed for x86_64 users as per the instructions on the YumUpgradeFaq. At the time (pre-Fedora 8) this took away my firefox.i386 (IIRC). As of today, yum update wanted to reinstall the i386 firefox, which requires the i386 avahi, which has a file conflict with the installed x86_64 version.


file /usr/share/avahi/service-types.db from install of avahi-0.6.21-6.fc8 conflicts with file from package avahi-0.6.21-6.fc8


Took a little tinkering to get past this one but I chose to clobber it with rpm -i --replacefiles /var/cache/yum/fedora/packages/avahi-0.6.21-6.fc8.i386.rpm. I have no idea how safe that is so use at your own risk. I'm also not sure if these avahi problems are errors you'll get upgrading from F7 either, I suspect it's only going to hit people who went up to test 3 or rawhide in the weeks leading up to the release.

Thanks to all Fedora contributors!