Re: [PLUG] YUM upgrade

[jimjawn <jimjawn@gmail.com>]

I'm using this page as a reference and its been a while since I've used yum, but I'd suggest:
1. ) upgrading the fedora release package to 5
# rpm -Uvh 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm 

2.) disabling all external repos (
fedora.us, dries, dag, freshrpms, etc..) in your yum.conf or in /etc/yum.repos.d/*

3.) disable SE Linux (if its not already disabled, you'll have to reboot after modifying this...)
# vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux










Change:





SELINUX=enforcing





-- or --





SELINUX=permissive

4.) running
# yum -y update kernel

5.) THEN removing the fedora core 3 kernels
# yum remove kernel-2.6.\*FC3\*

6.) Then upgrading
# yum -y upgrade

Actually, if you read that link in the first line, it pretty much covers everything.  Even the hiccups that will more than likely occur.  Good luck.  Hope that helps.

Jim


On 6/22/06, jazzman@exdomain.org <jazzman@exdomain.org> wrote:

Ok, so this has me confused. I'm attempting to use yum to upgrade my
system (fc3). I found a set of instructions that just makes absolutely no
sense to me. The first step is to remove any kernels less than a certain
version. So I ran the command it said: yum -y remove kernel-2.6.9* (or
whatever kernel i had installed) and yum went off, calculated it's
dependancies, and determined that it needed to uninstall EVERYTHING to
remove that package. I stopped it immediately. That seems like a BAD thing
to do, no?

So I tried skipping to the next step, downloading a fedora-release rpm. I
did that, it seemed to work/install ok. Then i ran yum -y upgrade as the
instructions said... it went off, did some header downloads, then crapped
out on a kernel dependancy!

*sigh* Is it really this difficult? Is it easier to just run the FC5
install from cd and be done with it? It can't REALLY be this hard to
upgrade, can it???

Marc

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