How To Upgrade 7.1 to 7.3 via yum

[Troy Dawson]

Thanks for the info.
Yep, I'll have to put in a section on the yum.conf file.  In my original 
document I actually had a yum.conf file for people to use.  Looks like I'll 
put one in.

I finolly found a pure RedHat 7.1 installation (instead of a Fermi Linux one) 
so I'm running through the steps right now.

Troy

Doug Koobs wrote:
>>There are three big area's where doing it via yum is useful.
> 
> 
> Sounds like this is the way I want to go (after a good backup). You may want
> to add a step to your how-to to edit the yum.conf file. When I followed your
> instructions (yum was not installed), and tried to run step 4, this
> happened:
> 
> [root at fcsftp /root]# yum update yum
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.1 base
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "yummain.py", line 144, in main
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 688, in get_package_info_from_servers
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 128, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> 
> There is no 7.1 directory in http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/, so I
> changed /etc/yum.conf, and replaced all instances of $releasever with 7.3
> and $basearch with i386, then I successfully ran "yum update yum".
> 
> I'm assuming that since I am upgrading to 7.3, this is correct. Please
> verify. Thanks!!
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
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