Hello and thanks for yum. I am trying to move from RH7.3 to Fedora Core 2 in two steps - ie RH7.3->RH8->FC2. Three questions: 1) Is there a description of the yum.conf file somewhere? Like a HOWTO or something? Particularly for moving 7.3->8? 2) If conflicts arise, is it normal for the upgrade procedure to stop after downloading the headers or can this be overridden? 3) I actually have the RH8 and FC2 disks. Can yum work with these (or copies on disk where the RPMS contents are all in one directory) instead of downloading (I can always update the packages later)? Or is it better to use the standard RH upgrade facility? Details: I installed the appropriate yum and successfully updated everything in RH7.3. I modified the yum.conf file to move to RH8 thus: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release gpgcheck=0 tolerant=1 exactarch=1 failovermethod=priority # First listed baseurl first each time #[base] #name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base #baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ #name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - os #baseurl=http://ayo.ie.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/os #[updates] #name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates #baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/ #name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates #baseurl=http://ayo.ie.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/updates #[freshrpms] #name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms #baseurl=http://ayo.ie.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms [redhat8] name=Redhat 8 baseurl=http://ftp.uk3.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ayo/redhat/8.0/i386/os/ # http://uk2.freshrpms.net/sites/ftp.freshrpms.net/ayo/redhat/8.0/i386/os/ # http://ie.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ayo/redhat/8.0/i386/os/ [redhat8freshrpms] name=Redhat 8 freshrpms baseurl=http://ftp.uk3.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ayo/redhat/8.0/i386/freshrpms/ # http://uk2.freshrpms.net/sites/ftp.freshrpms.net/ayo/redhat/8.0/i386/freshrpms/ # http://ie.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ayo/redhat/8.0/i386/freshrpms/ Note I commented out the RH7.3 [base] section as yum kept interrogating RH7.3 for obvious reasons. yum -t -y upgrade then downloads the headers for RH8 but there were some conflicts - eg postgresql-python and python. I removed these various packages and reinstalled them and the conflicts went away except for between initscripts and kbd. Removing the former would be pretty fundamental if anything went wrong so I removed and reinstalled kbdconfig - I could find nothing else that would cause the conflict. This now reports various packages that need libnewt.so.0.50 (not provided) so I tried installing newt (where that file lives) with the same response. So at the moment I am stuck with RH7.3 but almost all the headers installed for RH8... TIA John John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler" j.logsdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a.einstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx +44(0)161 445 4951/G:+44(0)7717758675 www.quantex-research.com
