[Yum] Upgrading RH9 to Fedora Core 1 With Yum

[Javier Perez]

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> [mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu]On Behalf Of salvatore
> Sent: Viernes, 20 de Febrero de 2004 01:58 p.m.
> To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
> Subject: [Yum] Upgrading RH9 to Fedora Core 1 With Yum
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> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks.
For whatever it is worth, I upgraded from RH8 to FC1 without problem
I just pointed the yum.conf to the FC1 repositories and yum did everything
by itself and FC1 is working quite fine, no problems. Nevertheless, YMMV.

My system was very standard, no special settings or customizations.

Javier

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