[ATrpms-users] FC3 to FC4 upgrade

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 09:24:39AM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote:
> I'm getting system lockups on my MythTV box all the time and I'm going
> to upgrade from FC3 to FC4 to see if it makes a difference. I can't
> find anything in log files that points to the problem and I've
> installed a whopping 120mm system fan which keeps the system cooler
> but I still get lockups.
> 
> I'm not going to do it by a fresh install as I don't want to risk
> losing all my MythTV stuff that I've spent months getting working. I
> want to do the upgrade by changing the sources.list.d files:
> 
> rpm http://dl.atrpms.net fc3-i386/redhat release
> rpm http://dl.atrpms.net fc3-i386/redhat updates
>                TO
> rpm http://dl.atrpms.net fc4-i386/redhat release
> rpm http://dl.atrpms.net fc4-i386/redhat updates
> 
> rpm http://dl.atrpms.net fc3-i386/atrpms stable
>                TO
> rpm http://dl.atrpms.net fc4-i386/atrpms stable
> 
> 
> I was then going to run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
> 
> Will this do it? I read somewhere that Jarod said you have to upgrade
> apt to the FC4 version for this to work. Is that correct? Do I do this
> before I run apt-get dist-upgrade or after? I don't really understand
> this bit because how can you install the FC4 version of apt on a FC3
> system?
> 
> Any guidance would be much appreciated.

I'd cut the upgrade in two pieces:

apt-get upgrade

which will upgrade only pacxkages w/o removing others and intorducing
new ones, and then

apt-get dist-upgrade

for the rest.

For the fastest upgrade, just ask anaconda to do it for you. It will
blow away some depedencies especially kmdls, but you can reconfigure
the depsolvers to point to ATrpms and upgrade the rest.

Note: "smart fix" can be very handy for finding (and fixing) broken
dependencies.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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