On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:22 +0100, maeder+rh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I recently upgraded from FC2 to FC3 using Yum, with little or no difficulty, > > thanks to some sage advise found in the link below. > > ... > > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html > > thanks for this link! Ever since I started to use RedHat around 1996 I always > wondered why they made you reinstall the OS for every new release instead of > updating it with rpm, which was always praised as a tool for keeping systems > up-to-date. How silly to write boot floppies or burn CDs if you a have a fine > Linux system already up and running. (not to mention the need to maintain all > these old releases.) FC1 -> FC3 may be a bit more problematic (from General freshrpms.net discussion list <freshrpms-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>)... Subject: Re: Upgrading from FC1 to FC3 On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 21:35 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > What does that mean for all the additional freshrpms packages which > > (presumably) anaconda doesn't know about? > > It means your deps will be broken. > > There's really no good way around it unless you want to update to a 2.6 > kernel and remove the 2.4 kernel then try a yum upgrade from there. > > I wouldn't recommend it. > > > Anaconda upgrade. > then yum update once anaconda is done > -sv and On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:13 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > It would be nice if the extra logic that Anaconda does could be extracted > > or modular so we could use it without having to reboot or in most cases > > have to be physically available. > > it's not extra logic. > > the virtue anaconda has is that it runs completely outside of the > system. > > it can do anything it wants w/o concern of the running system collapsing > underneath it. > > that's how anaconda does all that. > > -sv If you have non-Fedora packages or non-rpm-installed components you may still have serious dependency problems even after an anaconda upgrade, and if you use LVM it will interfere with a yum upgrade, thus the frequent advice to do a clean install. Have seen reports of success with FC1 -> FC2 -> FC3 yum upgrades. If you want to try that route see http://linux.duke.edu/%7Eskvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt http://linux.duke.edu/%7Eskvidal/misc/fc2-fc3-update-with-yum.txt Seth is 'da [yum] man! ;-) Phil
