On Tue, 25 May 2004, Georg Wittig wrote: > Hi, > > I want to upgrade my workstation from FC1 to FC2. A clean install isn't > an option to me because my FC1 is customized heavily (to re-customize a > cleanly installed FC2 would take days for me), and I'm running apt-get > with a lot of atrpms additions, too. > > The list archives didn't reveal much. So my question is, what's the > simplest way to upgrade in my situation? I don't think upgrading via the > official FC2 isos will work because of all the additional atrpms. > Alternatively, I could install rpm, apt-get, and atrpms for FC2 on FC1 > first, and then "apt-get dist-upgrade". Or is this the wrong way? Basically there are three options (not in any particular order as each have their points): a) Upgrade with anaconda, upgrade to FC2-apt from atrpms since that's the repo you're using and run finish the upgrade with "apt-get dist-upgrade", probably with -f to fix any broken dependencies automatically. b) Remove all 3rd party packages, upgrade with anaconda and reinstall 3rd party packages afterwards c) Upgrade directly with apt (or yum). Have a look at the yum upgrade guide for hints what you need to take care of manually in this case, it largely applies to apt as well: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt AFAIK atrpms apt doesn't have the necessary magic to upgrade kernels automatically so that's going to cause some extra steps (you'll probably have to first install a new kernel manually). One important point here: before you start the upgrade do # echo 'RPM::Order "true";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf That'll ensure that the packages get upgraded in the order RH intended them to. Last but certainly not least: if you are using LVM c) is NOT AN OPTION, you'll need to use anaconda for the upgrade. Software RAID might be a similar case but not sure about that. - Panu -
