On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 20:59 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > I doubt that you'll be able to pull a clean upgrade between RHEL and FC
> > > using yum... it may even fail to upgrade between different consecutive
> > > Fedora versions. (Hence it's unsupported...)
> >
> > That's really sad - I've been using Mandriva for a while, and one of
> > Mandriva's strengths (and they don't mind touting it), is that you can
> > upgrade any Mandriva version (and a lot of other RPM based distros) to
> > any other - when 10 came out they demonstrated a clean upgrade from
> > Mandrake 5 (the first Mandrake version that was publicly available) to
> > 10, and also some RedHat to Mandriva upgrades. I would not have expected
> > RedHat to be less capable in that arena.
>
> Two things.
> 1. You are essentially trying to upgrade between different types of
> Linux. (RHEL and Fedora). I doubt that anyone every anticipated anyone
> dumping RHEL and switching to Fedora.
Funny. upgrading between different brands of the same company works in
every other Linux I've used - SLE<->NLD<->SuSE, Ubuntu<->Kubuntu,
Mandriva<->NMS<->Corporate
I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora - only one of them
is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software.
> 2. Fedora -does- support upgrade using the Anaconda installer. You
> download the ISO/images/ftp/http/nfs images (whatever install method you
> prefer) and let the installer do the upgrade for you.
> Ummm... Fully updated, FC4 is pretty from from RHEL4. Both GCC wide and
> kernel wise. (2.6.9 vs. 2.6.14/15)
> If you need to maintain version compatibility, I'd try FC3 first.
That's the gist of it - I don't want to do a full upgrade. I want to
update select packages, but keep the basic system. Problem is - RedHat
(unlike other OS vendors) don't like that, so - for example - you can't
install two different major versions of the same library (like readline
4 and readline 5) unless there's "compat" package (and even then its a
problem, because yum prefers to update 40 packages depending on the old
version instead of simply installing the "compat" version).
--
Oded
::..
Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.
-- Alan Perlis
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