On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:56:31PM -0400, Jake Colman alleged: > >>>>> "GS" == Garrick Staples <garrick@xxxxxxx> writes: > > GS> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:55:44AM -0400, Jake Colman alleged: > >> > >> I am trying to upgrade from RH 7.3 to 8.0 (yes, I know that 9.0 is supported > >> and 8.0 is not but I'd rather take baby steps). I downloaded > > GS> In my experience, the RH7->RH9 route is best done directly. The rpm in RH8 > GS> is buggy. You will have rpm transaction problems when you do RH8->RH9. > > > Garrick, > > Too late. I removed squirrelmail and the dependency issue went away. My > system is busy right now downloading all the rpms needed to upgrade from RH7 > to RH8. > > Do you know what I can do to ease the pain of the RH8 to RH9 upgrade? Keep the rpm transaction sizes as small as possible until you get RH9's rpm installed. That means you upgrade the fewest possible number of rpms. That will be things like glibc, beecrypt, etc. But Seth's recommendation is better overall. -- 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/20050518/8aee2d2d/attachment.bin
