Yum upgrade from FC2 to FC3 possible?
Tony Jones
tony at immunix.com
Fri Jul 16 00:11:20 UTC 2004
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:34:05AM +0100, Paul wrote:
I clearly don't understand yum :-)
If I use your config file [as below], I get a 404 trying to download for the
[base] section (regarcless of server), because my version is 1.90 not "1"
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/1.90/i386/os/headers/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
If I comment out everything but the [development] section from your config file I get the same crash as before:
Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - Development tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 253, in main
clientStuff.download_headers(HeaderInfo, nulist)
File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 919, in download_headers
cachedbdict = returnCacheDBHeaders(nulist)
File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 901, in returnCacheDBHeaders
mi = cachedb.dbMatch()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'cachedb' referenced before assignment
> Hi,
>
> > Is it possible to upgrade (using yum or anything else) from FC2 (development)
> > to FC3 (development)? Or do I need to start with the FC3 iso's.
>
> Yes. My yum.conf file is below which uses one of the UK mirrors (mainly
> as I'm in the UK!). Update your yum.conf file to include these and run
> yum update.
>
> Be warned, there are lots to update!
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
>
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=fedora-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
>
> [evolution]
> name=Evolution Devel Snaps
> baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm
>
> [development]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development tree
> baseurl=http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch
>
> [base]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
>
> [updates-released]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released updates
> baseurl=http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>
>
> [updates-testing]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates testing
> baseurl=http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch
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