[Yum] Upgrading RH9 to Fedora Core 1 With Yum

Garrick Staples garrick at usc.edu
Fri Feb 20 19:19:59 UTC 2004


On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:57:46PM -0500, salvatore alleged:
> All,
> 
> I have begun researching the use of Yum to upgrade my RH9 box to FC1, 
> and am looking for advice/experiences/et cetera.
> 
> I found this page: 
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html 
> and it seems easy enough, but what am I missing?
> 
> Is yum a sufficient medium to use to upgrade RH?  Is this something 
> that'll take hours to download (512/128 dsl line)?  Should I stick to 
> the CDs to upgrade?  I dont mind the DL wait if its something that'll 
> progress relatively smoothly.
> 
> The RH box is just my home workstation, running apache, sendmail, seti, 
> and various other utilities; I havent done too much in the way of 
> customization, but I would like not to lose anything either.
> 
> Can someone kick me in the right direction?

I've used yum to upgrade from RH7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 to RHE3 a few times just
fine.  Sometimes you have to uninstall a few things to get the deps to resolve.

The only problem I had was upgrading from RH8.0.  I kept getting rpmdb errors
with rpm transactions with more than ~40 packages.  I just did 'yum update rpm'
and rebuild the rpmdb and it went fine from there.

-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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