yum upgrade Fedora Core 5 -> Fedora Core 10?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed May 20 20:46:14 UTC 2009


Tosh wrote:
> This should normally not be that difficult as CentOS 5 is based on FC6
> You should grab the release rpm package, and replace manually, then you
> can yum update to CentOS 5

But some FC5 updates are newer than what CentOS 5 ships,
breaking "upgrades". (For example, KDE is 3.5.5 in FC5 updates, 3.5.4 in
CentOS 5, the kernel is 2.6.20 in FC5 updates, 2.6.18 (with tons of
backports, but still "older" to RPM) in CentOS 5.)

        Kevin Kofler




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