On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 16:33 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one > >> machine from F7 -> 8 -> 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have > >> a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;) > > > > Maybe less trouble than you think, the machine I'm sitting at right now > > was yum upgraded from fc2->3>4>5>6>7>8 not all that long ago, with little > > trouble. The yumupgradefaq saved me finding the pitfalls myself. :) > > Do you know where I can find current repos of FC3, 4, and 5?
>From elsewhere in the thread: http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/ > > I borked it pretty hard trying to yum upgrade from fc8->9 yesterday; > > some of the packages on a fully up-to-date fc8 system have higher > > version numbers than the same packages in the fc9 repositories, which > > made things interesting. At least it is back up and running multi-user > > now, I just need to figure out what is causing gdm to crash. I'm sure > > there are some "old" libraries hanging around causing the issue. > > Oh, yeah, I hit this issue too. Wasn't TOO hard to deal with manually, > but still quite annoying to have to. Packager error when you encounter that. Shouldn't ever happen, newer distro should always have a higher NVR. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/