[Spacewalk-list] How to use Spacewalk to upgrade RHEL to higher version(s)?

[Stepan Rogov]

Hi.
Upgrading from Centos 5 to Centos 6 impossible. Because that is a new 
version of RPM, and a package of 6 is not compatible with the RPM of 5.

Need a complete reinstall.

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29670&forum=14

> Hi,
>
> I've tried to upgrade rhel 5 to rhel 6 for both i386 and x86 systems, 
> but none of them working. What I have done were:
>
> (1) Attach the higher version's channel to the client in Spacewalk server.
> (2) Use 'yum upgrade' from the Spacewalk client.
>
> Here are some errors from 'yum update':
>
> Error: Missing Dependency: libpoldiff.so.1(VERS_1.2) is needed by 
> package setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libseaudit.so.4 is needed by package 
> setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 is needed by package 
> setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libseaudit.so.4 is needed by package 
> setools-libs-tcl-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: tcl(abi) = 8.5 is needed by package 
> bwidget-1.8.0-5.1.el6.noarch (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libapol.so.4(VERS_4.0) is needed by package 
> setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libtcl8.5.so is needed by package 
> setools-libs-tcl-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: avahi = 0.6.25-11.el6 is needed by package 
> avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.25-11.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libqpol.so.1(VERS_1.2) is needed by package 
> setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libapol.so.4(VERS_4.0) is needed by package 
> setools-libs-tcl-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libpoldiff.so.1(VERS_1.3) is needed by 
> package setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libpoldiff.so.1(VERS_1.3) is needed by 
> package setools-libs-tcl-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libglade-2.0.so.0 is needed by package 
> setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libpoldiff.so.1 is needed by package 
> setools-libs-tcl-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libseaudit.so.4(VERS_4.1) is needed by 
> package setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: pkgconfig is needed by package 
> OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-12.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: setools-console = 3.3.7-4.el6 is needed by 
> package setools-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libapol.so.4 is needed by package 
> setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libseaudit.so.4(VERS_4.1) is needed by 
> package setools-libs-tcl-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libqpol.so.1(VERS_1.2) is needed by package 
> setools-libs-tcl-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: pkgconfig(ncurses) is needed by package 
> OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-12.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libsefs.so.4(VERS_4.0) is needed by package 
> setools-gui-3.3.7-4.el6.i686 (rhel_6_i386)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>                         package-cleanup --dupes
>                         rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
> Any idea? Thank you in advance!
>
> nz
>
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