Link for updating FC3-FC4 via yum
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sun Jun 19 15:25:13 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:05 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> Someone was kind enough to give me a link here a while back that showed
> how to do this. I've lost it and searched the archives and can't find
> it. Can you please post it again? Thanks.
>
I don't know what page you are referring to.
I do know that there are a couple reported gotcha's
1) if you run postgresql - dump the database and turn off the service.
You will need to reload the database from the dump after upgrading -
upgrading postgresql won't work otherwise. Well, it will work, but
database won't start. Not personally experienced this, just what I have
seen reported (I don't run pgsql)
The rest is based on my experiences with going from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3
(didn't do the 3 to 4 thing on any boxes via yum)
2) have the fc4 rpm and python yum rpm's on your local disk - I manually
update those.
I put them all in a common directory - then execute
rpm --test -Uh *.rpm
It usually gives me errors about python packages that need the older
version of python.
I make note of them and rpm -e them. It may require adding some newer
fc4 packages as well (to satisfy new python dependencies)
Oh yeah - I ALWAYS manually backup the rpm database first.
Once rpm --test -Uh *.rpm works in the directory with updated
python/yum/rpm - I do it w/o the --test switch (IE really update them)
Once I have the new fedora rpm/python/yum installed -
3) install the fedora-release-4-2 package from fc4
Make sure only fedora core, updates, and extras is enabled.
then try for the full thing:
yum update
Those are my suggestions - how I have yum upgraded systems from 2 to 3.
I didn't do any systems from 3 to 4 though.
You may need to uninstall some python packages to get python to update
before.
Someone else may know a better (or easier) way.
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