Bill McGonigle wrote:
On Nov 14, 2007, at 15:39, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Those packages are not in the f7 "core" repo you have, hence the
problem.
python-cheetah is in there, at least. cobbler and koan are in the
updates repo - I *think* yum does the right thing there, but maybe not.
It could also be that I'm not using cobbler reposync properly -
previously I was rsyncing mirrors with my own scripts, which I'm
looking forward to abandoning in favor of cobbler's! Do these look
appropriate?:
You really need to upgrade using the CD so Anaconda can come into the
picture, and then upgrade cobbler after you finish the CD install. I
don't believe yum upgrades from FC6 -> F7 were supposed to work.
(Fortunately, there are such a thing as upgrade kickstarts, if you need
to do a rollout to upgrade a lot of systems... so, yes, you could
technically use Cobbler to upgrade other systems via PXE and/or koan
after you get that done)
---
-
arch: ''
createrepo_flags: -c cache
depth: 2
keep_updated: True
mirror:
'http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os'
name: f7i386
parent: ~
rpm_list: ''
-
arch: ''
createrepo_flags: -c cache
depth: 2
keep_updated: True
mirror: 'http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/i386/'
name: f7i386updates
parent: ~
rpm_list: ''
Aside: the docs use repo names like this, but yum doesn't seem to be
able to interpret "$basearchupdates", so f7i386-updates might be a
better doc example, since yum can handle "$basearch-updates".
AFAIK Anaconda upgrades will update everything they can and leave the
other packages out, which you could then update later.
Come to think of it, yum skip-broken might handle this as well. Just
for grins, if I were to:
rpm -e python-cheetah cobbler koan
would I lose my data and config files or just the programs and rpmdb
entries? I could re-install the packages right after upgrade.
AFAIK upgrading directly from yum (versus a CD) is usually not
recommended.
Yeah, that's the official position, but virtualization makes this even
tougher - I'd have to take down 8 'machines' for a long time vs just a
quick reboot. Before xen, only one machine was affected; online
upgrades are an even bigger win today.
Despite the official position, I have machines that work great having
been yum upgraded from RH9 to F7, so far, F8 I'm just starting with.
This is all predicated on my observation that F7 and F8 don't work
under an FC6 cobbler/xen install. If others have contrary experience,
I'd sure like to hear it - that would take some pressure off an
upgrade timeframe. I've looked for a matrix/docs of which versions of
Fedora and/or Xen Dom0's can host which versions in DomU's, but I
haven't been able to find it yet. On the latest cobbler/koan under FC6
I can deploy other FC6 no problem, but F7 and F8 cause the Xen guest
to crash during boot (according to xend.log).
Thanks,
-Bill
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