[OT] Upgrading from RH73 to FC2
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri May 27 21:51:03 UTC 2005
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:53:13PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:11:43PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > One other thing - the upgrade from RHL 7.3 to FC2 or above is probably
> > going to be dodgey - you are going from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel, glibc
> > 2.2.5 to 2.3.5, Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.0, wu-ftpd to vsftpd, etc., etc.,
> > etc...
>
> You can do 7.3 to FC3 by yum upgrade if you do it a few hops at a time and
> providing you know about the one glitch in FC1 dependancies which means you
> *MUST* force an update of the e2fs debug tools before krb5 and anything
> depending on it by hand.
What happens when yum gets to installing udev, and sees it deprecates MAKEDEV and
friends, and your /dev goes away ? That would seem to be the major spanner
in the works for in-place updates.
Dave
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