On 11/17/2009 06:10 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > > > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> >> Have you tried using a x86_64 install DVD and going the "upgrade" route >> with it (rather than the "install" route)? >> >> I essentially did this from F6.i686 to F9.x86_64. I had lots to clean >> up when I was done, but it essentially worked. You might have to change >> the following file by hand first: >> >> /etc/rpm/platform >> >> so that it contains the one line: >> >> x86_64-redhat-linix >> >> You might also want to change to this line in /etc/yum.conf >> >> exactarch=0 >> >> If you do that, I think that you could then use "yum upgrade" to do the >> upgrade and it would switch package architectures for you. >> > > Very interesting idea, Kevin. Sounds like you are suggesting two different > approaches: one an upgrade from the DVD; the other is using yum. Or am I > misunderstanding you? Yum requires the "preupgrade" route, no? preupgrade is the "supported" method recently release by the fedora team. I have used this method both successfully and unsuccessfully recently. My mixed results including it working on one set of hardware and not on another, even though the same releases were involved. yum upgrade has been around for a while, but the fedora team does not support it. I have used this method successfully in the past, but often with lot's of manual cleanup necessary. It is documented here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq In addition, when you throw in the architecture change, it becomes even more "unsupported". I have learned a lot about how Fedora works "under the hood" by doing unsupported upgrades and then cleaning them up when I got done. Some times they "work", some times they don't. A couple of times, I ended up doing 100's of "yum updates" on specific packages, including the one time I upgraded from F6.i386 to F9.x86_64. (I have since used pre-upgrade to update that system to F11.x86_64.) > ----- > Colin Brace > Amsterdam > http://lim.nl -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
