[ATrpms-users] FC4 - FC5 - FC6 Upgrade questions

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:35:42PM -0500, Al McIntosh wrote:
> Hey,
> 
>     I have a few questions, I decided to bring my FC4 mythbackend /
> frontend  PC up to date with FC6.

This was discussed on this list a couple of days ago, please check the
archives, and also see below.

>  With regard to upgrade is it necessary to upgrade in the following
> synchronous steps FC4 -> FC5 -> FC6 as opposed to FC4 -> FC6?

No.

> yum upgrade FC4->FC5 fails with
> 
> Error: yum conflicts with pirut < 1.1.4
> Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package rpm
> Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package rpm
> Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package xine
> Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package xine
> Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-graphics8756-kmdl-1:1.0_8756-74.fc5.at
> is needed by package nvidia-graphics8756
> Error: Missing Dependency: libneon.so.24 is needed by package rpm
> Error: Missing Dependency: libneon.so.24 is needed by package librpm4.4
> 
> 
> smart upgrade FC4->FC5 smart versions 0.42 -> 0.50 all  appear to
> endlessly loop attempting to compute the transaction even when left over
> night.
> 
> I have both the FC5 and FC6 DVDs and have considered performing a fresh 
> install and symply importing my backed up mythconverge.sql. However, 
> it's not that easy, I would have reconfigure everything, lvm, ivtv, well 
> as I said everything.

A fresh install is always best. You should backup the mysql database
and all of /etc (and of course homes). Then you can reinstall w/o
changing lvm at all - just let the installer format the partitions and
let him know which partition was for /home, /boot etc.

Second best is to do a DVD upgrade.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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