Step by step instruction for upgrading fedora Core 3 to 4 using yum

[Jim Cornette]

David Cary Hart wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:46 -0700, Charles Allen wrote:
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>>Is there a web site with this information on it.  Thanks Charlie
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>Several but you are over-complicating. Just install
>fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm and run yum. DISABLE supplementary repos
>first (dag, etc.).
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>BTW, you might want to create your own repo from the DVD. If you
>download once, no need to do it again.
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>PLEASE do not top post and over-quote!
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As a note, I upgraded in the above mentioned method.
Some (very few) were upgraded when I got the discs downloaded. burned 
and tried an upgraded from CD. The packages are listed below.

Upgrading firefox-1.0.4-4.i386.
Upgrading cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2.i686.
Upgrading dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2.i686.
Upgrading comps-4-0.20050606.i386.

Installing the fedora-release rpm changes your $releasever to reflect 
FC4 and also adds the repos to /etc/repos.d directory. The files might 
have rpmnew tagged to the end and have to be renamed to not include the 
rpmnew suffix. After the fedora release package is added and the repo 
files renamed, upgrade seems to work pretty smoothly. (In my case anyway)

Why firefox was upgraded, I do not know. The standalone kernel modules 
were added because I was running a later kernel version w/ those modules 
installed. The kernel must be taken for granted that it will be installed.
comps.rpm never gets installed, it is not in the repositories RPMS 
directory. It is located in another directory, yum never sees comps.rpm.

Jim

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