Re: RHEL4 Beta 1 to Beat 2 via up2date?

[Marc Wallman <Marc Wallman ndsu nodak edu>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Mike McLean wrote:

> Mark Zolton wrote:
> > Is there a recommended procedure for using up2date to move from Beta 1 to 
> > Beta 2?
>
> Generally this sort of upgrade (from one beta to the next) is not recommended 
> at all.  That being said, you can most likely get things rolling by manually 
> upgrading the redhat-release package before attempting the up2date.

It may not work in this case. Maybe someone else will have had better
luck than me. I've been able to bootstrap everything via up2date except 
the compat-* packages. up2date errors out on these:

# up2date -u

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-4-beta...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
compat-gcc-32                           3.2.3          46.1              i386
compat-gcc-32-c++                       3.2.3          46.1              i386
compat-libgcc-296                       2.96           130.7.2           i386
compat-libstdc++-296                    2.96           130.7.2           i386
compat-libstdc++-33                     3.2.3          46.1              i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1249, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 804, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1123, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 74, in run
    self.__dryRun()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 159, in __dryRun
    self.percentCallback)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 398, in dryRun
    ret = depsolve.solvedep()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/depSolver.py", line 728, in solvedep
    ret = self.process_deps(deps)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/depSolver.py", line 695, in process_deps
    changed = self.__dependencies(dependencies)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/depSolver.py", line 508, in __dependencies
    solved.remove(pkg)
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list
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Marc Wallman
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