Upgrade to 1.0a via yum

[Michael Christy]

Thanks for the info Peter.  I also made a local repository in an attempt
to get around some of these problems but got frustrated in trying to
resolve dependencies using rpm and finally gave up.

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Peter M. Groen wrote:

> On Saturday 16 April 2005 19:28, Michael Christy wrote:
> > In the last week I have tried twice to install AC0.9 and upgrade to 1.0a
> > via yum.  After installing AC0.9, the yum update always seems to break
> > with what looks like inconsistent headers for the packages available.  Has
> > anyone else been able to do this recently, and if so could you walk me
> > through it?  AC1.0a looks very promising and I would really like to test
> > it out on my Alphas.
> >
> > Eric
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> I did the same, some three weeks ago.
> I made a local copy of the repository and just did a "blunt"
> rpm-install ( rpm -Uvh *.rpm --force --nodeps ).
>
> After an hour or two, it was finished but I had to reconfigure aboot.conf to
> "see" the new kernel. It is still running fine on my DS20E and had no
> problems what so ever.
>
> The way I did it, can be questioned or argued, but it worked and that's good
> enough for me. When the 1.0 iso's are there, I will do a plain re-install
> just for testings sake.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
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