Upgrade to 1.0a via yum

[Peter M. Groen]

On Saturday 16 April 2005 21:07, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:36:29PM +0200, 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 ).
>
> I really do not know that "inconsistent headers" may mean but
> if you got localy copies of all packages then you can always run
> 'createrepo' on a direcotory with these and point 'yum' to that
> repository on your local disk.  You will be using then your own
> headers.  It is possible then you have break a few circular
> dependencies before doing the above.  '--force --nodeps' is
> indeed "extra blunt"

Like I said: I'm not interested in discussions if I could have done it 
different. The case is: I didn't and I told Eric how I solved it. If it is 
the way other people should do it, I don't care and that was not the question 
of the OP.

Peter