I did the upgrade last night from RHL 9 to Fedora Core 1. Here were my issues: gaim because of the changes to the aspell library (the merging of pspell and aspell I assume) had a dependency that wouldn't resolve in the upgrade. redhat-config-securitylevel, pine and postgresql-server had dependencies on a library in krb5-libs that caused some problems. Removing the packages, then installing them after the upgrade worked just fine. I'm having some problems with mysql, but I don't think that's due to the upgrade. I think it's due to a buggy package. As for the upgrade from RHL 8 to Fedora, I think the recommended way is to upgrade to 9 first if you're going to use yum. Otherwise use the CDs. Joseph Brad Cox wrote: > Mind a suggestion for your article? > > In view of the fedora vs RHN hoohah, there is gonna be a huge interest > in cross-distro upgrades. The only mentions I've seen say yum *might* > work with a few "worked for me's", but nothing on when it might not or > what could happen when it doesn't. > > I'm making backups right now, hoping to upgrade from RH8 to fedora from > a cheapo CD set I bought for insurance, being unwilling to trust the > "might nots" above. Plan to do a clean install preserving only the /home > partition, then use yum to update from there. It would be a HUGE help if > someone had researched RH8 and RH9 to fedora conversion via yum and > reported the results.
