Updating to Rawhide

[Justin Conover]

On 11/16/05, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/16/05, Bob Chiodini <robert.chiodini-1 at ksc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 06:44 -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:54:31PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > > Enable fedora-devel and extras-devel repository and disable the rest
> > and
> > > > run yum update. Post the output of that to the list if you need
> > help.
> > > > You might workaround dependencies by installing a minimal number of
> > > > packages or ignore some of the packages in the update by using the
> > > > exclude option in yum. man yum and yum.conf for details.
> > >
> > > You probably have to remove some of your older kernels from FC4 as
> > well.
> > > If your existing kernel is 2.6.13 something or later, then do an
> > > rpm -qa | grep kernel
> > >
> > > Any kernels which are not 2.6.13 or later, rpm -ev the package name
> > > (including -devel).
> > >
> > > Otherwise, I got things to upgrade fairly smoothly.
> > >
> > > Good Luck,
> > > Robin
> > >
> >
> > How timely. I'm going thru this right now and have been for the past
> > two days. In addition to the others' responses, so far this is what I
> > did:
> >
> > Clean "everything" install of FC4 from CDs.
> >
> > Download the latest development kernel, kernel-devel,
> > initscripts, kudzu, kudzu-devel, hwdata.
> >
> > --nodeps install of the downloaded packages. You may only need
> > the new kernel, try that first. That might avoid the libc
> > problems below.
> >
> > Reboot to the new kernel, you'll get errors from kudzu, etc.
> > about libc. You will also need to manually set up networking
> > (ifconfig, route).
> >
> > Remove the original kernel (yum remove kernel-2.6.11*, I think).
> > This fixes the kudzu conflict with the < 2.6.13 kernel.
> >
> > Turn off gpgcheck in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-devel.repo. For
> > some reason gnome-panel is not signed.
> >
> > Memory get a little foggy here:
> >
> > These packages caused ssh/ssl grief and were not necessary for
> > me:
> >
> > yum remove Canna* iiimf* ppp* w3c* hpoj perl-RPM2
> >
> > yum --exclude dlm-* --exclude=cman-kernel --exclude=lvm2-cluster
> > --exclude=gulm* --exclude=magma* upgrade
> >
> > This is where I am now. At last count there were over 1200 packages to
> > be upgraded.
> >
> > Bob...
> >
> >
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> I wouldn't be doing "nodeps" on anything, good way to hose your system.
> Like its been mentioned, I would remove all your 2.6.13 kernels first, fc4
> has a 2.6.14 kernel.
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> rpm -qa kernel\*
> yum remove <old-kernels> <old-kernel-devel>
> yum update kernel yum
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> If you get a lot of old package deps, the easiest thing to do is
>
> yum remove <all problems> and if you have to, get to a pretty lean rawhide
> box and then use groupinstalls
>
> yum groupupdate or groupinstall Base Gnome, stuff you use
>
> example
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> yum groupinstall "Base" "GNOME Desktop Environment" "X Window System"
> "System Tools"
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> Quotes are important if it is more than one word, just like
> scripting/coding
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> yum grouplist will show you what is important
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> Just a note, with all the new xorg updates this could be a painful time :)
>
> have fun!
>


Oh, after the "yum update kernel yum" I would reboot first, this is pretty
much how I move box's to rawhide.
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