[OT] Upgrading from RH73 to FC2

[Dave Jones]

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