On 28 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: > So you have systems, right now, running yum 1.0.X and 8.0? Yup!! > Here is what I would suggest. > > the rpm updates go in first. but make sure you get the librpm404 updates > from here: > ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/librpm404 > > as well. > that way yum 1.0 has something to stand on in order to manipulate the > rpmdb. > > then update yum to 1.97+ > > That should do it. > > you might be able to do all of that in one step, I've not actually > tested it. > > let me know the outcome. Well I went for it and here are the results: (tigger pts8) # yum update Gathering package information from servers Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 base Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 docs Getting headers from: rogueind 8.0 local updates Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [update: rpm.i386] [update: yum.noarch] [update: librpm404.i386] [update: rpm404-python.i386] [update: rpm-build.i386] [update: popt.i386] [update: rpm-python.i386] I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the depedencies: [deps: libxml2-python.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: y Getting rpm-4.1.1-1.8x.i386.rpm Getting yum-1.97-20030528.noarch.rpm Getting librpm404-4.0.5-1.8x.i386.rpm Getting rpm404-python-4.0.5-1.8x.i386.rpm Getting rpm-build-4.1.1-1.8x.i386.rpm Getting popt-1.7.1-1.8x.i386.rpm Getting libxml2-python-2.4.23-1.i386.rpm Getting rpm-python-4.1.1-1.8x.i386.rpm Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit popt 100 % done rpm 100 % done librpm404 100 % done rpm404-python 100 % done rpm-build 100 % done libxml2-python 100 % done rpm-python 100 % done warning: /etc/yum.conf created as /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew yum 100 % done Updated: rpm.i386 yum.noarch librpm404.i386 rpm404-python.i386 rpm-build.i386 \ popt.i386 rpm-python.i386 libxml2-python.i386 Transaction(s) Complete (tigger pts8) # Pretty painless actually. As a precaution I tarred up the rpmdb first but it appears that was not necessary. :-) I did a total of 3 machines this way without a problem. I have a few more but they will have to wait for another day. -- ......Tom CLUELESSNESS: There Are No Stupid Questions, But tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx There Are LOTS of Inquisitive Idiots. :-) Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org
