On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:45:29PM -0400, Met @ Uber wrote:
> Can I just change where my Yum is setup to get packages from to update
> from 94 to 95? Or is that just a _really_ bad idea?
I think you can. I tried it on my test machine, which is an ancient PI
with just about a GB of installed Fedora on it. Your mileage almost
certanly will vary.
* Edit your update repository to point to the new version. BTW, it is
not in the man page for yum.conf, but it appears yum accepts # as a
comment character. This is handy for temporary hacks like this.
* Run "yum check-update". This will pull in the new headers and tell
you what you have to update. Here is what I saw:
XFree86 i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-75dpi-fonts i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-Mesa-libGL i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-base-fonts i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-font-utils i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-libs i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-libs-data i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-tools i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-twm i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-xauth i386 4.3.0-37 updates
XFree86-xfs i386 4.3.0-37 updates
acpid i386 1.0.2-3 updates
bind-utils i386 9.2.2.P3-6 updates
comps i386 1:0.95-0.20031010 updates
coreutils i386 5.0-23 updates
cpio i386 2.5-5 updates
cpp i386 3.3.1-6 updates
db4 i386 4.1.25-10 updates
devlabel i386 0.42.05-2 updates
dhclient i386 1:3.0pl2-6.16 updates
elfutils i386 0.89-2 updates
elfutils-libelf i386 0.89-2 updates
filesystem i386 2.2.1-5 updates
freetype i386 2.1.4-5 updates
glibc i386 2.3.2-98 updates
glibc-common i386 2.3.2-98 updates
gmp i386 4.1.2-7 updates
groff i386 1.18.1-29 updates
hotplug i386 3:2003_08_05-1 updates
hwdata noarch 0.99-1 updates
indexhtml noarch 2:0.95-2 updates
initscripts i386 7.36-2 updates
kernel i586 2.4.22-1.2088.nptl updates
krb5-libs i386 1.3.1-6 updates
kudzu i386 1.1.32-1 updates
libgcc i386 3.3.1-6 updates
libgcj i386 3.3.1-6 updates
libjpeg i386 6b-29 updates
libstdc++ i386 3.3.1-6 updates
libtiff i386 3.5.7-14 updates
man i386 1.5k-11 updates
man-pages noarch 1.60-4 updates
mkinitrd i386 3.5.14-1 updates
mktemp i386 1.5.1-1 updates
modutils i386 2.4.25-13 updates
ncftp i386 2:3.1.6-1 updates
net-snmp i386 5.0.9-1 updates
nscd i386 2.3.2-98 updates
openssl i386 0.9.7a-23 updates
pcre i386 4.4-1 updates
perl i386 3:5.8.1-91 updates
portmap i386 4.0-57 updates
prelink i386 0.3.0-8 updates
procps i386 2.0.17-1 updates
redhat-artwork i386 0.84-1 updates
redhat-config-network-tui noarch 1.3.7-1 updates
redhat-config-securitylevel-tui i386 1.2.10-1 updates
redhat-config-xfree86 noarch 0.9.9-2 updates
redhat-menus noarch 0.40-1 updates
rhpl i386 0.117-1 updates
run i386 2.0-3 updates
tzdata noarch 2003d-1 updates
up2date i386 4.1.5-1 updates
which i386 2.16-1 updates
zlib i386 1.2.0.7-2 updates
* A quick ("yum check-update | grep -i kernel") check tells me that
there is a kernel upgrade between .94 and .95.
* The first thing I did was "yum upgrade kernel". That worked just fine.
* After that, I ugraded the rest all in one swell foop.
Oddly enough, "yum check-update | grep -i release" did not show any
new version of redhat-release, but there is one and it will be
installed.
* Since the release version should have changed, clean out all of your
old headers. "yum clean all oldheaders" You might even kill off old
directories. "rm -r /var/cache/yum/base /var/cache/yum/updates". I'm
no yum guru, but it certainly seems harmless so far. One advantage
of a local repository (http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html) is
that you can kill off the headers in your test machine as much as
you like.
* /etc/redhat-release is now a symlink to /etc/fedora-release. On the
off chance that the former will eventually go away (the package
did), you might edit [main] in yum.conf to include
"distroverpkg=/etc/fedora-release". Another that went away is
redhat-logos.
* The penultimate thing to do is edit your yum.conf to reflect
possible changes in your repository locations. The $releasever and
$basearch macros should handle the problem, but paranoids live
longer.
* Reboot and try it. X seems to be working and that's usually a good
sign.
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