FC1 upgrade from rh8, but running 2.6.7 kernels

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Got it, but rpm claimed it was already installed so I used the --force
> to freshen it.

Force is always bad. You could have done the following to make
sure you had the correct one.

rpm -q apt
rpm -qV apt

And one needs 'apt-get update' before 'apt-get upgrade'. Perhaps
'apt-get -f dist-upgrade' does a better job - not sure..

BTW: What do you have for 'cat /etc/redhat-release' ?

> And what will the -f option do, the manpages are in an odd location
> I've not added to my $MANPATH settings yet.

--fix-broken. I've noticed it primarily processes obsoletes (as in
pine is obsolteted in FC1 - and upgrade should remove pine)

you could do google on 'man apt-get'

> [root at coyote dlds-rpms]# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386 release [1174B]
> Fetched 1174B in 0s (1849B/s)
> Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/os pkglist

you have bad listing in sources.list

> [root at coyote etc]# ls -lR apt*
> apt:
> total 32
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root root  690 Mar  4 15:35 apt.conf
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 30 12:56 apt.conf.d
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  150 Apr 30 12:49 rpmpriorities
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1854 Apr  8 07:22 sources.list
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root root 1812 Apr 25  2003 sources.list~
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 30 12:56 sources.list.d
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root root 2339 Apr 30 12:33 sources.list.rpmnew
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  146 Sep 27  2002 vendors.list

Since sources.list was modified - it wasn't updated when you reinstalled apt. You could do:
mv sources.list.rpmnew sources.list
(alternatively reinstall apt completely)
rpm -e apt
ls -R /etc/apt
rm -rf /etc/apt
rpm -ivh apt...rpm

I'm guesing you did 'yum update' instead of 'yum upgrade' to upgrade to
FC1 from RHL9 - hence some of these issues..

Satish