yum upgrade F8->F9
Globe Trotter
itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 17 03:50:48 UTC 2008
--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: yum upgrade F8->F9
> To: itsme_410 at yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 7:14 PM
> Globe Trotter wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone had experience with
> upgrading F8 to F9 of late. I get a strange bunch of
> dependencies which indicate that the current rpms (to be
> upgraded) have dependencies on the old (F8) ones. For
> example, claws-mail in F8 needs libssl.so.6, etc.
> >
> > But why should yum care? Claws-mail itself will be
> updated to the new.
> >
> > I was following instructions from
> >
> >
> http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/138/upgrading-from-fedora-8-to-fedora-9-with-yum/
>
> Difficult to say what is going on, without the exact yum
> output. Yum
> will care about older packages if the older packages have
> others
> depending on them.
Thanks, will post that. But is there a better, more recent version of how to do the above? Does the newkey stuff make a difference: it appears that the above instructions were written some weeks ago.
Many thanks,
Trotter
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