Rough upgrade to FC4

[Joshua D. Abraham]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:24:43PM -0500, nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote:
> 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.
> 
Agreed. I have been using Redhat since 6.2. I had partitions setup the
following way

/boot
/ 
swap 
/home
/usr/local/

This way I can keep the users data and just install a new system over
it. I think that Debian's method of package management is the best of
any of the Linux Distro's. I a year ago I switched from FC3 to Ubuntu
because Ubuntu has a 6 month release cycle, similar to FC and Ubuntu
pays individuals to fix security vulnerabilities.

--Josh

> 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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