On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 00:34 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > 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 is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software.
Here's the main problem. Repeat after me: Fedora is not RedHat. Fedora is not RedHat. .. Fedora is not RedHat. > > > 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). > You can always download the SRPM, unpack it, change it name and obsolete lines and rebuild it. This -should- solve the problem. > -- > Oded Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
