On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:57:46PM -0500, salvatore alleged: > All, > > I have begun researching the use of Yum to upgrade my RH9 box to FC1, > and am looking for advice/experiences/et cetera. > > I found this page: > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html > and it seems easy enough, but what am I missing? > > Is yum a sufficient medium to use to upgrade RH? Is this something > that'll take hours to download (512/128 dsl line)? Should I stick to > the CDs to upgrade? I dont mind the DL wait if its something that'll > progress relatively smoothly. > > The RH box is just my home workstation, running apache, sendmail, seti, > and various other utilities; I havent done too much in the way of > customization, but I would like not to lose anything either. > > Can someone kick me in the right direction? I've used yum to upgrade from RH7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 to RHE3 a few times just fine. Sometimes you have to uninstall a few things to get the deps to resolve. The only problem I had was upgrading from RH8.0. I kept getting rpmdb errors with rpm transactions with more than ~40 packages. I just did 'yum update rpm' and rebuild the rpmdb and it went fine from there. -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20040220/823dc171/attachment.bin
