Comments on: Upgrading from FC6 to Fedora 7 with yum

By: Jamie Beck

Jamie Beck — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:25:05 +0000

The rpm's listed about have moved. The new command should be:

rpm -Uhv http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

By: doc

doc — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:55:29 +0000

for those on 64-bit machines having problems saying "nash" is required, etc., and in case you (i) forgot the extremely forgettable syntax for querying package architectures (i have run into this many times, and each time i come back here to remember, and re-figure this out):

1. run this

rpm -q –queryformat='%{N}-%{V}-%{R}.%{arch}\n' mkinitrd
rpm -q –queryformat='%{N}-%{V}-%{R}.%{arch}\n' parted
rpm -q –queryformat='%{N}-%{V}-%{R}.%{arch}\n' nash

2. then remove the x86 ones (may vary):

rpm -e parted-1.8.2-2.fc6.i386
rpm -e mkinitrd-5.1.19.0.3-1.i386

2. then yum upgrade works…

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:55:05 +0000

I ran yum update and only had issues with Python like others.. I removed authconfig vlc 4Suite (part of Python). upgrade went great.. I then reinstalled a VLC package for fc7 and we are in business. I'll update 4Suite tomorrow.. don't even know if I need it or not.
I also have softraid with 2 250GB drives with LVM and everything was labelled correctly.

FC6 to FC7 went fine.. and this is after having this server running about a year on FC6 with no problems..

Thanks for all the good tips.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:22:03 +0000

python(api) errors.. just run `yum remove authconfig`

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:35:09 +0000

Good work Artem S. Tashkinov !!!

Your tip to re-create the initrd image fixed my problem.

Now I just need to figure out why udev is only building device nodes for 2 out of 4 drives in my RAID array… :-(

By: anon

anon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:44:05 +0000

I had a problem after the update on a system where LVM was on a soft RAID. The system has 2 ATA and 2 SATA drives on soft (md) RAID-1 configuration. Yes, I know, I could make raid on LVM by itself, but at the time it was built I was more familiar with md. Know, upon boot with the kernel of fedora 7, the order of drives changes, and sata drives do not come as sda/sdb but as sdbc/sdd, and the ata disks take the sda & sdb labels. As i have the / partition on ata disks, the system boots, but loses completely the filesystem on LVM (it does not get recognized). Any hints will be welcomed!

By: Dharmesh V Patel

Dharmesh V Patel — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:29:39 +0000

The two step upgrade went fine after I got the i386 versions of the rpms in the first command. All the dependency erros (there were hundereds of them) went away and an hour and half later I was at Fedora 7. I had the labels correctly and I followed the fedora Upgrading using yum instructions too and changed my boot drive to /dev/sda in the grub config (from /dev/hda/) before booting. Machine booted up just fine.

Thanks for the instructions. They too came in pretty handy.

By: Dharmesh V Patel

Dharmesh V Patel — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:22:15 +0000

This seems to be a very good guide EXCEPT that its for x86_64 systems. I did not realize that and stupidly fired the rpm -Uhv command on my non 64 bit system. I am still trying to recover. With more and more folks now running the new hardware which is 64bit, it might not be an issue but it might help if you put it up in the title that the steps are for x64 architecture. My upgrade is running currently and I will post the changes (no renaming to rpmnew is required etc) once the upgrade finishes. I intend to do a 2 step upgrade going from FC6 to Fedora 8.

By: person1873

person1873 — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:52:57 +0000

i know people have been asking left right and center if it's possible to skip a version, and i'm no different appart from that i want to go from fc6 to f8. is this possible without the whole f7 step, could i just put the f8 repo's in rather than f7?

By: Greg James

Greg James — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:05:42 +0000

Philip Diaz,
I had a similar problem. I just rpm -e the packages having the problem then I could do the upgrade. Then I just yum installed them back in after the upgrade.
Hope this helps.
Greg James