[OT] Upgrading from RH73 to FC2

Jeffrey D. Yuille jeffy5 at optonline.net
Fri May 27 22:07:08 UTC 2005


Dave Jones wrote:

>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
>
>  
>
Hello,

     By the way, how do you do an upgrade from the command line for, 
say, an upgrade from FC3 to FC4T3.  What is the exact command line 
syntax to be used for this upgrade? 

Jeff




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