Re: Howto upgrade from FC1 to FC2?

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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 -



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