I have done some FC5 to FC6 upgrades
by just doing the old
1. Do a "yum clean all" to remove all the old yum cruft.
2. Install the fedora-release for Fedora Core 6. Use the rpm
command:
rpm -Uhv
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/R
PMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedor
a-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm
3. Run the yum update: yum -y update. At this point I had to remove
a few packages to get past dependency issues they weren't important
and I just added them back after the update.
I even did a FC7 to FC8 that way. I was wondering if it would be better to do
a
yum upgrade
instead.
I do not know what the --obsoletes really does.
Thanks in advance
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William Chimiak
Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences
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