If Some Brave Soul Tries a Yum Update to FC5 . . .

[David Cary Hart]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:23:01 +0100
Ingo Schaefer <ingo at ingo-schaefer.de> opined:
> Hi Ric,
> Am Donnerstag, den 23.03.2006, 08:21 -0800 schrieb Rickey Moore:
> 
> > Could you give us a mini-howto?? Thanx! Ric
> 
> A german one is available in the Wiki of the BraLUG
> http://www.bralug2.de/wiki/index.php?title=Fedora_Core_Upgrade_mit_yum
> 
> My mini-howto could be extracted from two of my mails here, I will
> do it for you:
> 
> remove some packages first:
> 
> # yum remove hpoj perl-RPM2 lvm2-cluster iiimf-le-sun-thai iiimf-qt
> 
> remove any kernel older than 2.6.14
> 
> Grab file fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
> from any mirror near you.
> 
> Install it:
> # rpm -Uhv fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
> 
> Check the messages if rpm has created .rpmnew files (if you have
> modified the old ones)
> 
> Optional: open fedora-core.repo and add "-redirect" (without
> quotation marks) to the URL of the mirrorlist
> 
> # yum upgrade
> 
> check if everything looks okay and then
> 
> # reboot 
> (and pray if you want)
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
> PS: see also
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html

Pay attention to Dovecot. The old config has - supposedly - been
replaced with a different format.

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