hi hs... i tried your approach.. to gradually/slowly remove the rpms for the apps that appear to be having dependency issues... and managed to delete a package that blew up/deleted the rpm/yum apps... so.. based on my experience, i'm still looking for the 'correct approach' to being able to do a FC4-FC5 update using yum. from articles/forums/letters i've seen, i'm not the only person in this situation... it appears that being able to simply do a "yum -y update' works on a relatively clean FC4 machine... thanks.. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of H.S. Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:00 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: fc4->fc5 upgrade Ric Moore wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 15:08 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >>bruce wrote: >> >>>hi... >>> >>>looking to jump from fc4->fc5 i've seen different guides from google.. can >>>someone point me to what they consider to be the 'best guides' for doing a >>>yum upgrade from fc4->fc5 >>> >>>thanks >>> >>> >> >>I did the upgrade via yum and posted my experience on this mailing >>list. You may want to search the archives. My starting point was: >> >>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq >> >>Most of the stuff went pretty well. Just make sure you have enough space >>in /var/ to download the new packages. > > > Mine blew up. It's still sitting in the corner. It'll boot, after > stalling for 3-5 minutes complaining about udev like a fussy schoolmarm > with stern warnings. Got a new machine, installed it fresh from the CD > and everything (mostly) is peachy. Take your pick. <grins> Ric > Well, I read the wiki I mentioned earlier, was using a kernel as described there, made sure had plenty of space in /var/cache, did "rpm --rebuilddb" once, uninstalled the few problem packages, and then did upgrade via yum and reinstalled the packages I had had to uninstall. Everything worked out fine and dandy. I guess depending on user to user, there might be some packages which may always cause problems. A work around is to uninstall them and retinstall only those packages later. I did this on a triple boot machine with Win XP, Debian Etch (my main work horse) and FC5. No data loss at all. However, I keep backups of my /home partitions on a second hard disk ... keeping backups is always a good practice whatever the OS may be. ->HS -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
