[ATrpms-users] Re: FC3 to FC4 upgrade

[Preet Khalsa]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:19:35PM -0400, Preet Khalsa wrote:
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>>I need advice.
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>>In other upgrades, I backed up and did a clean install from CD.  This
>>time around there is no major kernel upgrade or other system level
>>things to worry about.
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>>Does the upgrader on CD work or is it broken like in the past?
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>>Do I just switch repos and let yum do the work?  I have to use yum
>>because this is a x86_64 box.
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>Yes, upgrading with yum/smart is rather safe this time. yum may bail
>out due to too many packages in its memory, but that will not harm
>your system (it will just not update it).
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>FWIW I would always upgrade kernel, reboot, upgrade glibc and then do
>the full thing.
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>BTW the FC4 systems I have are all from scratch, so the above is just
>academic. ;)
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Thanks Axel,  I will try this on a P4 box at work with Yum before 
hitting my Myth box at home.  WAF will be decimated if I miss one 
episode of "Coronation Street".

Cheers

Preet