On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 14:48, Brian Lalor wrote: > I'm currently running RH7.3 on two machines. I'm happy enough with RH9 > that I'd like to upgrade my other systems. Is there a document that shows > the steps required for this? > > My systems are relatively up-to-date and I've got yum 1.0 installed. > 7.3->9 is tricky. I've done it, once. the problems are these: 1. python changes place 2. rpm-python changes place 3. rpm changes versions, massively. so I'll probably play with it more and try it but the short version is this: 1. rpm -e perl-NDBM_File - it was obsoleted by perl in 8.0 but not in 9 2. if you have any ANCIENT kernels installed but not running, remove them 3. change your yum.conf file to point to 9 4. run yum upgrade 5. wait about 10mins for the deps to fully resolve (you might want to get one of the dailies for 1.0 - they have a special . that tells you its still running :) 6. it will do all the rpm updating, no problem. 7. it will die when it attempts to update the grub.conf/lilo.conf b/c of the change of python's location - I've not figured out why this happens yet. so you'll need to add the kernel line in by yourself to lilo.conf if you're running lilo - and make it the default if you're running grub.conf (it will already be added) 8. then update yum to 1.97 or one of the daily releases. done. -sv
