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

[Al McIntosh]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

What I meant, I would have to restore my lvm configuration. I have 
/dev/VGforMyth/video which is comprised of 2 separate drives where my 
myth recordings are stored.


Thanks for the info.

Al