On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:05 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > Someone was kind enough to give me a link here a while back that showed > how to do this. I've lost it and searched the archives and can't find > it. Can you please post it again? Thanks. > I don't know what page you are referring to. I do know that there are a couple reported gotcha's 1) if you run postgresql - dump the database and turn off the service. You will need to reload the database from the dump after upgrading - upgrading postgresql won't work otherwise. Well, it will work, but database won't start. Not personally experienced this, just what I have seen reported (I don't run pgsql) The rest is based on my experiences with going from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 (didn't do the 3 to 4 thing on any boxes via yum) 2) have the fc4 rpm and python yum rpm's on your local disk - I manually update those. I put them all in a common directory - then execute rpm --test -Uh *.rpm It usually gives me errors about python packages that need the older version of python. I make note of them and rpm -e them. It may require adding some newer fc4 packages as well (to satisfy new python dependencies) Oh yeah - I ALWAYS manually backup the rpm database first. Once rpm --test -Uh *.rpm works in the directory with updated python/yum/rpm - I do it w/o the --test switch (IE really update them) Once I have the new fedora rpm/python/yum installed - 3) install the fedora-release-4-2 package from fc4 Make sure only fedora core, updates, and extras is enabled. then try for the full thing: yum update Those are my suggestions - how I have yum upgraded systems from 2 to 3. I didn't do any systems from 3 to 4 though. You may need to uninstall some python packages to get python to update before. Someone else may know a better (or easier) way.
