[Yum] Yum "article"

[Joseph Tate]

I did the upgrade last night from RHL 9 to Fedora Core 1.  Here were my 
issues:

gaim because of the changes to the aspell library (the merging of pspell 
and aspell I assume) had a dependency that wouldn't resolve in the upgrade.
redhat-config-securitylevel, pine and postgresql-server had dependencies 
on a library in krb5-libs that caused some problems.
Removing the packages, then installing them after the upgrade worked 
just fine.

I'm having some problems with mysql, but I don't think that's due to the 
upgrade.  I think it's due to a buggy package.

As for the upgrade from RHL 8 to Fedora, I think the recommended way is 
to upgrade to 9 first if you're going to use yum.  Otherwise use the CDs.

Joseph

Brad Cox wrote:

> Mind a suggestion for your article?
> 
> In view of the fedora vs RHN hoohah, there is gonna be a huge interest 
> in cross-distro upgrades. The  only mentions I've seen say yum *might* 
> work with a few "worked for me's", but nothing on when it might not or 
> what could happen when it doesn't.
> 
> I'm making backups right now, hoping to upgrade from RH8 to fedora from 
> a cheapo CD set I bought for insurance, being unwilling to trust the 
> "might nots" above. Plan to do a clean install preserving only the /home 
> partition, then use yum to update from there. It would be a HUGE help if 
> someone had researched RH8 and RH9 to fedora conversion via yum and 
> reported the results.