Ben Russo wrote:
Jeff Allison wrote:
Antonio Montagnani wrote:
Ben Russo wrote:
Nowhereman wrote:
I essentially did it by adding the RedHat rawhide channel to a RedHat 9 box,
eventually the redhat-release package got updated and my universe suddenly
transformed from REDHAT to FEDORA.
Ben
How did you go through procedure?? please will you post step-by-step instructions??
Tnx
Antonio
Or at least some hints
Jeff
Well, it is a little diffferent now then it was when I did it several weeks ago
because the packages have changed and the redhat ftp site paths have changed.
But, I have an RH9 box here, so what the heck....
wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-1-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh fedora-release-1-1.i386.rpm
[root@loon root]# rpm -qa | grep release
fedora-release-1-1
################## NOTE, "redhat-release" isn't there any more.
[root@loon root]# wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/up2date-4.1.14-2.i386.rpm
[root@loon root]# wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rhnlib-1.4-1.noarch.rpm
[root@loon root]# rpm -Uvh rhnlib-1.4-1.noarch.rpm up2date-4.1.14-2.i386.rpm
[root@loon root]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
I don't know if you will have to re-do this on your machine, but I had to do it on mine...
rhnreg_ks --force --username=MYRHNID --profilename=Bens-Home-WS --password=RHNPASS --useNoSSLForPackages --email=ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[root@loon root]# wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-build-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm
[root@loon root]# wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-devel-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm
[root@loon root]# wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-python-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm
[root@loon root]# wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/beecrypt-3.0.1-0.20030630.1.i386.rpm
[root@loon root]# wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/popt-1.8.1-0.30.i386.rpm
[root@loon root]# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm rpm-build-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm rpm-devel-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm beecrypt-3.0.1-0.20030630.1.i386.rpm popt-1.8.1-0.30.i386.rpm
No matter what I did up2date said I had to rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
I also did /usr/bin/gpg --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
That didn't completely solve the problem.
first, edited /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and set usegpg=0
even on clean installs of Fedora I have found that the up2date processes
seem to have lot's of problems with package signatures.
and I also set the gpgKeyRing=/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
Then I went to init 3, shutdown xfs, xinetd, portmap, sendmail, gpm, syslog...
basically everything that isn't necessary for up2date.
Then I ran "up2date -u"
[root@loon root]# up2date -u
Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...
Fetching http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
########################################
Fetching package list for channel: updates-released...
Fetching http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1/headers/header.
info...
########################################
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-1...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released...
Fetching rpm headers... ########################################
.... (((( and it went on and on for HOURS )))).
