[Yum] Weird error message

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 21:50, Justin Case wrote:
> yes, my parent's are wierd.
> 
> yum didn't want to install, so i had to use --force --nodeps. am trying
> to update it to 8.0. thanks
> 
> yum-1.0-1_80
> rpm-4.0.2-6x
> redhat-release-6.1-1
> 

so let's see:

1. --force and --nodeps are bad ideas, always.
2. I'm not sure you'll be able to go from 6.1 to 8.0 immediately
  apache changes dramatically, the kernel, glibc, rpm db format - a
whole range of pain. You may want to consider doing an anaconda-based
update.
3. - use yum for the 7x branch - it will be more-well-suited to the
versions of things on 6.1
4. it'd be MUCH MUCH cleaner to backup your data and config files,
reinstall on 8.0, move the data back, put the config files back by hand.
 If you make a list and are careful about it you could probably do all
of that in 2-5 hours.

-sv