Jared Buck wrote:
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Is there a way to just "yum update" from a FC4 repository and so magically move from FC3 to FC4? This could save me a lot of time...
greetings roberto
I think you mean "yum upgrade." Or, if you like, "yum --obsoletes update," which according to the "man yum" page amounts to the same thing. (IIRC, the --obsoletes flag removes packages that are now regarded as obsolete, which is essential to keep your disk from filling up with junk.)
I seem to recall that you first have to rewrite yum.conf to point from one version to another, or change $releasever from 3 to 4. Or maybe you have to wget the latest yum rpm and then install it using
rpm -Uvh yum*
(I won't vouch for that! I've never downloaded yum from anywhere; it's always installed itself as part of Core when I do a clean install.)
My history with updating the Core is that I once had a problem with an xorg update that made Fedora impossible to start. So I backed everything up (using scp from another host on my network) and then installed FC3 "cleanly." Probably just as well, considering that I had to go from physical volumes to logical volumes. But now I'd like to do a regular upgrade so that I can see what happens.
So how about it? Will "yum upgrade" or "yum -y upgrade" (the -y flag automatically answers "yes" to any questions along the way) accomplish an FC3 to FC4 transition? What shall I do ahead of time to make it work?
Temlakos
