[Yum] installing/upgrading an os over itself

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 08:47 -0800, bruce wrote:
> hi...
> 
> is there a way to use yum to reinstall an OS on top of itself... i started
> to upgrade to FC2. i ran out of harddrive space, and had to remove some
> files/make space... i tried to do a 'yum -upgrade' again... and yum came
> back and said no new files, or that it didn't have aything new to
> update/upgrade...
> 
> it appears that something was changed, enough so that yum thought FC2
> already exists on the system. trust me.. FC2 is not completely on this
> system!!
> 
> so how can i get the system/yum to a point where i can try to continue to
> upgrade/install FC2...
> 

bruce,
 You've been talking about this set of problems for the last couple of
days. In that time you could have reinstalled via the normal fedora
installer and reconfigured the whole system. Is there some reason you
are hell bound for leather to do this via yum?

-sv