Upgrade to fc2->fc3 via yum

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:36 -0500, Henry Hartley wrote:
> Same question, different version...

Still a fedora-list question ;^)

> Should upgrading from FC1 to FC3 work?  Or does the change from the 2.4 to
> 2.6 kernel cause problems?

Seth Vidal says no - due to kernel/udev problems.  LVM could also be
problematic.  Would not argue with such an authoritative source. 

> Can someone provide a pointer to a yum.conf I should use?

Wouldn't want to be responsible, under the circumstances, but a hint is
to change all occurrences of "$releasever" to "3" for core repositories.

Phil

On Tue, 2004-11-09, (on freshrpms-list) seth vidal wrote:
> To: General freshrpms.net discussion list <freshrpms-
list at freshrpms.net>
> Cc: rpm-list at freshrpms.net
> Subject: Re: Upgrading from FC1 to FC3
...
> apt-get or yum won't do it
> kernel 2.4 conflicts with udev
> 
> you'll need to upgrade via anaconda. 
...
> >
> > What does that mean for all the additional freshrpms packages which
> > (presumably) anaconda doesn't know about?  
> It means your deps will be broken.
> 
> There's really no good way around it unless you want to update to a 2.6
> kernel and remove the 2.4 kernel then try a yum upgrade from there.
> 
> I wouldn't recommend it.
>
> Anaconda upgrade.
> then yum update once anaconda is done
> -sv