I report herewith success doing an essentially unattended yum -y upgrade (I simply watched it) from aurora-0.4 to aurora-1.0 on sparc64 architecture (a Sun Ultra Sparc I, with 256 M ram) [ http://www.auroralinux.org/ ], in support of our Wings product [ http://www.owlriver.com/support/wings/ ]. I have ported a large percentage of our packagings and Red Hat RawHide current -- over 200 SRPMs -- with our autobuilder, overnight, as I slept. [herrold@dhcp-4 herrold]$ uname -a Linux dhcp-4.victim.lan 2.4.20-2.3sparc #1 Wed Jan 15 18:27:52 EST 2003 sparc64 unknown Screenshot: http://www.owlriver.com/support/wings/sparc-xfce.png There is a minor matter (already Buigzilla'ed) related to adding recognition of the 'silo' bootloader, and getting /etc/silo.conf updated: [herrold@dhcp-4 noarch]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.19-0.004sparc kernel-2.4.20-2.3sparc [herrold@dhcp-4 noarch]$ The update kernel route did not add the needed stanza to /etc/silo.conf -- the kernel code is too early for the later RHL rpm -i -- lilo.conf and grub.conf post-install script identification and modification enhancements to be present. -- Russ Herrold partial transcript: ------------------- <snip> getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/autorun-0-2.73-1.sparc.hdr getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/glibc64-profile-0-2.2.5-42.sparc64.hdr Resolving dependencies .Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [install: kernel.sparc64] [update: tetex-fonts.sparc] <snip> [update: koncd.sparc] [update: kpf.sparc] I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the depedencies: [deps: nautilus-mozilla.sparc] Getting tetex-fonts-1.0.7-47.1.sparc.rpm Getting kdessh-3.0.3-0.7.sparc.rpm <snip> Getting koncd-3.0.3-0.7.1.sparc.rpm Getting kpf-3.0.3-0.7.2.sparc.rpm Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit tetex-fonts 100 % done kregexpeditor-devel 100 % done <snip> glibc 100 % done silo 100 % done You probably want to run /sbin/silo now. tetex-xdvi 100 % done cipe 100 % done <snip> Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing. Installed: kernel.sparc64 Updated: tetex-fonts.sparc kdessh.sparc <snip> talkd.sparc ark.sparc kdesdk-kbabel.sparc gcc-c++.sparc koncd.sparc kpf.sparc nautilus-mozilla.sparc Transaction(s) Complete [herrold@dhcp-4 noarch]$ -- end ======================================+ .-- -... ---.. ... -.- -.-- | Copyright (C) 2003 R P Herrold | Owl River Company herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx NIC: RPH5 (US) | "The World is Open to Linux (tm)" My words are not deathless prose, | Open Source LINUX solutions ... but they are mine. | info@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Columbus, OH gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0x7BFB98B9 gpg --list-keys 2> /dev/null | grep 7BFB98B9
