[Yum] Yum upgrade from FC3 to Centos 4.2 yum/rpm error

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 09:18 -0900, Adam Bultman wrote:
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> Um, no.
> 
> My RPM libraries were in perfect running condition.  I could install,
> remove, query, etc all my RPMS. Even remove them!
> I had tried many times to overwrite my existing RPM libs, but RPM
> won't overwrite them. So, I copied it from another
> Centos 4.2 box, and tried it - nothing. Same thing.
> 
> The problem was selinux.  Once I installed Centos' version of SELinux,
> and a few of it's dependencies, Yum worked.
> I've gotten so far as to get it to almost upgrade to centos.  It balks
> at hal and udev, since FC3 doesn't appear
> to have udev. I'm tempted to remove the dev package and try let yum do
> it's upgrade, but I don't want to crash the box.
> After taking a look at the packages and such installed, I can see why
> it is unsupported.  But, I'll give it a try.
> If you want, I'll let you know how this frankenstein upgrade goes.
> 

It would be more useful information to be posted to the centos-users
lists.

-sv