[Yum] success report - arch: sparc64 yum-1.0-20030508

[R P Herrold]

I report herewith success doing an essentially unattended 
	yum -y upgrade 
(I simply watched it) from aurora-0.4 to aurora-1.0 on sparc64
architecture (a Sun Ultra Sparc I, with 256 M ram)
[ http://www.auroralinux.org/ ], in support of our Wings 
product [ http://www.owlriver.com/support/wings/ ].  I have 
ported a large percentage of our packagings and Red Hat 
RawHide current -- over 200 SRPMs -- with our autobuilder, 
overnight, as I slept.

[herrold at dhcp-4 herrold]$ uname -a
Linux dhcp-4.victim.lan 2.4.20-2.3sparc #1 Wed Jan 15 18:27:52 
	EST 2003 sparc64 unknown

Screenshot: http://www.owlriver.com/support/wings/sparc-xfce.png
 
There is a minor matter (already Buigzilla'ed) related to
adding recognition of the 'silo' bootloader, and getting
/etc/silo.conf updated:

[herrold at dhcp-4 noarch]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-2.4.19-0.004sparc
kernel-2.4.20-2.3sparc
[herrold at dhcp-4 noarch]$

The update kernel route did not add the needed stanza to
/etc/silo.conf -- the kernel code is too early for the later
RHL rpm -i -- lilo.conf and grub.conf post-install script 
identification and modification enhancements to be present.

-- Russ Herrold

partial transcript:
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<snip>
getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/autorun-0-2.73-1.sparc.hdr
getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/glibc64-profile-0-2.2.5-42.sparc64.hdr
Resolving dependencies
.Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: kernel.sparc64]
[update: tetex-fonts.sparc]
<snip>
[update: koncd.sparc]
[update: kpf.sparc]
I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the depedencies:
[deps: nautilus-mozilla.sparc]
Getting tetex-fonts-1.0.7-47.1.sparc.rpm
Getting kdessh-3.0.3-0.7.sparc.rpm
<snip>
Getting koncd-3.0.3-0.7.1.sparc.rpm
Getting kpf-3.0.3-0.7.2.sparc.rpm
Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit
tetex-fonts 100 % done
kregexpeditor-devel 100 % done
<snip>
glibc 100 % done
silo 100 % done
You probably want to run /sbin/silo now.
tetex-xdvi 100 % done
cipe 100 % done
<snip>
Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader
No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing.
Installed:  kernel.sparc64
Updated:  tetex-fonts.sparc kdessh.sparc
<snip>
talkd.sparc ark.sparc kdesdk-kbabel.sparc gcc-c++.sparc 
koncd.sparc kpf.sparc nautilus-mozilla.sparc
Transaction(s) Complete
[herrold at dhcp-4 noarch]$

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