Update RedHat 9.B --> Fedora

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0000, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 15:45, Thomas Skerhutt wrote:
> > Remco schrieb:
> > 
> > >On Monday 24 November 2003 16:23, Thomas Skerhutt wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>I've just one question: How can I update from RedHat 9.B to Fedora Core?
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >You probably ran
> > ># yum update 
> > >
> > >which updates individual packages but
> > >
> > ># yum upgrade
> > >will do a full cross-distro version upgrade which is probably what you want.
> > >
> > >Remco
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > You're right, first I ran yum update and saw that there was no success. 
> > After that I started yum upgrade, but it didn't find any new packages or 
> > anything to install.
> > 
> > Thomas
> I accidentally did a distribution upgrade from Redhat 9, to Fedora Core
> 1, by editing the /etc/yum.conf file, and changed the release version,
> to that of Fedora Core 1 (what ever it is), and then did an upgrade (or
> was it update).
> 
> Any way, 900 odd packages later, and it was upgraded.
> 
> However, I believe this method does not catch every thing, if new
> packages are included in a default install, then they will not be
> upgraded/installed.

Since yum handles dependencies, a new package upon which a package to
be upgraded is dependant will be installed. What you will not see is
installation of packages new in FC1 for which you have no ancestor on
your computer. You can always do a "yum list" to see what is
available.

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