Rough upgrade to FC4

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (nmeyers at javalinux.net)]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:13:27PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
> I just upgraded to FC4 from FC3 and I had some troubles that should
> not have happened.  My FC3 system was current with updates, and I used
> downloaded ISO's from fedora.  The problem was that many of the FC3
> packages were more up to date than the FC4 packages, so the upgrade
> did not install them.  This included the kernel.  I felt lucky that I
> had a workable system.

Sorry to hear things haven't gotten any better since my days as
an RH user (pre-RH9). I never experienced a smooth upgrade; sometimes
had to just rebuild the system.

I drifted from RH to Mandrake (pre-Mandriva) and then to Gentoo.
Though not without the occasional bump, I've found Gentoo's approach to
package management the least violent of them all.

Nathan

> 
> Running up2date did not help -- I was still in an FC3 system (kind of).
> 
> I manually installed the FC4 kernel and ran up2date again, but it was
> stuck on many packages, because up2date only wanted to freshen
> existing rpm's -- it didn't want to add any new ones to solve
> dependencies. 
> 
> After much arm-wrestling (floundering?), I gave up on the GUI up2date
> and ran with the command line, feeding it chunks of rpms that needed
> updating.
> 
> I feel lucky that I didn't brick my system.  What did I do wrong?
> This must be a common occurance.  I have another system that I need to
> upgrade, but I don't want it to go like this.  What's a better way?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
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