On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:40 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: > > Why?, with F11 less than 2 weeks away. > > It would save an extra hoop. > > It wouldn't because he'd have to go through F10 anyway because of the RPM > changes. There's no sense in trying to yum upgrade such an old distribution. There's no guarantee that even an update F(N-2) -> F(N) works [I've done a couple of Fedora 8 -> Fedora 10 updates, though; they worked flawlessly]. Fedora Core 5 is so old, that almost everything, starting from the init system has changed a couple of times. I'd do a fresh install by formatting the / partition (you do have a separate /home, don't you?). In this case waiting for Fedora 11 may be worthwhile. The other option is to yum update to CentOS 5.3, which should work as easily as removing the fedora-release and fedora-release-notes RPMs # rpm -e fedora-release fedora-release notes installing centos-release and centos-release-notes # rpm -Uvh http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5-3.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-notes-5.3-3.i386.rpm Also, installing the Fedora EPEL repository is a good idea. # rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm Then you need to: # yum clean all (or just yum clean, if the former didn't work) # yum -y update (you may need to remove 3rd party repositories you've used in Fedora 5) After this, reboot since glibc has been updated. Finally, check what is not available in the repos with # yum list extras >From these, you should 1. if the installed package is newer than the one in the repo: remove the installed package, and install a replacement with yum 2. remove (obsoleted) packages that are not available in the repositories -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
