Upgrade to FC4 final?

[Daniel Gonzalez]

David-

Sounds promising, but how did you know when to stop updating via yum? I 
stopped updating about 1 week ago. That's what i'm trying to find out 
now. What files/directories will tell me where I'm at? My first guess 
would be to read everything under /etc/yum.conf. Agreed?

Thanks for the input

Dan Gonzalez

David Kewley wrote:

>On Wednesday 08 June 2005 07:17, Harald Grossauer wrote:
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>>As far as I have seen there are no more updates for FC4test3, but FC4
>>final is not released yet.
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>>Just in advance: what do I have to do when FC4 final is released?
>>Activate the appropriate repos, which are already configured in
>>/etc/yum.repos.d but not enabled, and call "yum update"?
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>>Will that be enough to get a "clean and complete" FC4 final
>>installation? Or would it be better to download the ISO images and
>>completely reinstall FC4 from scratch?
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>If I read you correctly, you want to know whether it will work well to 
>do a 'yum update' on a FC4t3 box, with yum.repos.d/ pointing (only) to 
>the FC4-final repos?  Whether you'll then end up with a "clean" FC4 
>box?
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>I'm quite sure it isn't "supported" in any sense, but my bet is it will 
>work well.  I did it with FC3t3->FC3, and it seemed to work fine.
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>It's probably best if you already did all the updates to FC4t3 that were 
>available in rawhide, up to the point when rawhide became the 
>playground for FC5.  If you did so, I bet that there are relatively few 
>packages that need updates to FC4, and that most of those packages have 
>only very small changes.
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>I have two boxes with FC4t3, both updated to the last pre-fork rawhide 
>repository.  I'm planning to 'yum update' to FC4, and I don't expect 
>any problems.  I reckon if there *are* problems, I may end up doing a 
>clean reinstall. :)
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>You might want to backup any data you care about beforehand, just in 
>case.  Shouldn't be an issue, but I tend to be conservative with large 
>and/or unsupported changes.
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>David
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