using yum to upgrade from FC1 to FC2?

[Patrick Boutilier]

Ding Li wrote:
> Adam Williams wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I know its not recommended to use yum to upgrade from FC1 to FC2, 
>> and that anaconda should be used.  I have a remote server though, and 
>> I'd like to attempt to use yum to upgrade it from FC1 to FC2.  Does 
>> anyone have any instructions on how to do this?  I put on the fedocra 
>> core 2 release and fedora core 2's yum noarch RPMs and then tried yum 
>> -y update and yum -y upgrade, but both return dependancy errors on 
>> MySQL (i'm using mysql 4.0.1 rpms from mysql.com)  any suggestions, 
>> thanks?
>>
>>
> Adam,
> 
> If you get any dependency problem, just remove the package. For your 
> case, what you need to do is 'rpm -e --nodeps mysql'. Then you run 'yum 
> -y upgrade'. I believe there are more dependency problems, just remove 
> all of them and give it a try.


Or 'rpm -e --justdb --nodeps mysql' so no files get removed, just the 
RPM database entry.



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> Ding
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