Hi Eric!
The points you raise are always interesting and a pleasure to learn
from. It is admirable that others, including Jeffrey, have gone in
this direction and gotten things to work. Perhaps what is needed is
one place to collect and store all this effort and knowledge for
review, study and examination -- so that this (the work we are
discussing) and others like it can be evaluated in a common and shared
view. This would elevate this and other efforts like it, from the
realm of hear say or rumor to something of a more reliable level
determined or evaluated/experienced by members of the YDL community.
The basis of my concern regarding Jeffrey's approach regarding using
yum to update/upgrade across different versions of YDL however, is
exactly the problem you experienced.
Besides there is another difficulty also, yum didn't exist yet for YDL
3; it used apt-get.
However, there's nothing like an official statement from TSS:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/faq/upgrade.shtml
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Eric Dunbar wrote:
On 22/08/06, Derick Centeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeffrey allow me to express admiration for your persistence;
congratulations are definitely in order.
As you work in YDL 3, keep in mind a few things:
1. yum updates within a version family, not across them. In other words,
yum is designed such that you can update with say YDL 3.0 to YDL 3.0.1. I
have not seen or heard of anyone using yum to update between YDL 3.0 to YDL
4.0, etc. If you take a look at the coding of yum.conf, you would notice
that the mirrors yum.conf points to are specifically related to that version
of YDL you are using. Also even if you chose to rewrite yum.conf to point
to other mirrors and versions of YDL, that is only part of the problem. The
components instructing yum how to behave (what to access, and install, etc.)
reside on the mirrors and if you attempt to access them using your current
plan you could create a problem for yourself which will make your current
efforts look rather simple.
It is possible to 'pin' yum to update between 3.0.1 and 4.0 and some
people swore up and down on their great-great grandparent's grave that
it worked for them (and, I'm sure it did). Jeffrey posted a link to a
how-to on the subject in an earlier post.
I did it and it worked for me too, to a certain extent -- the servers
all worked flawlessly (IIRC) but I ran into some problems with
X/KDE/GNOME and trying to install/run programs. I tried fixing it for
a little while but eventually decided to wipe / and install 4.0 from
scratch (which worked nicely).
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