Comments on: Upgrade FC5 to FC6 with yum

By: Ramblings of a sane man

Ramblings of a sane man — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:09:49 +0000

[...] out the there must be some method for doing it via yum. I got Google working on it and found this..http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/99/upgrade-fc5-to-fc6-with-yum/ and I figured I would work up to [...]

By: Elias

Elias — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:56:52 +0000

Working on the last step. Seems to be going fine.

I wanted to post a problem I had.

When running "yum -y update" (last step) I got a message saying the file repomd.xml could not be found. I found this thread http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-07/msg02726.html where they suggest eliminating the core part of the path in the basurl in the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo. It is a typo in that file. Remove it and the yum update runs smooth.

Thanks for thhis great post and good luck.

Elias

PS. I know, what am I still doing with FC5 annd now FC6?

By: Trylinux.org » Installing with Media is so 90s

Trylinux.org » Installing with Media is so 90s — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:16:43 +0000

[...] http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/99/upgrade-fc5-to-fc6-with-yum/ http://www.ioncannon.net/linux/68/upgrading-from-fc6-to-fedora7-with-yum/ [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:11:47 +0000

Oops, that last comment was meant for the FC4->FC5 article. I've been bouncing between three of these articles and lost track… :-)

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:38:20 +0000

Yesterday I posted about my remote machine hanging after going from FC4->FC5, and that it was currently running in the old FC4 kernel. Tech support at the datacenter just gave me this little gem:

"kernel-2.6.20 is known to be unstable woth fedora core 5 . we recommend you use kernel-2.6.19 kernel-2.6.18 for fedora core 5."

Anyone else able to confirm this and recommend the best way to resolve it?

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:06:14 +0000

After the YUM upgrade – do a "yum install yum-utils" and this will resolve most, if not all of the dependencies and you can then do the yum -y upgrade after this completes. It sounds a bit strange, but it worked on several machines that all had different dependency issues…

cheers

By: Frans

Frans — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:04:14 +0000

Hmm… I removed kernel-headers.i386 from RPM database to (force) reinstall, but yum can't find it. How do I get it back, anybody?

By: Error: Missing Dependency: - Linux Forums

Error: Missing Dependency: - Linux Forums — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:15:59 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by Dapper Dan Hi emperorlinux, It has been my experience that trying to upgrade to current version in RedHat/Fedora using yum is challenging to say the very least. I suppose it is doable, but I've tried on more than one occasion and problems always seemed to multiply as fast as I tried to address them. Unless this is a "project" you are undertaking for the purpose of learning more about your distro (and that is a good reason), I'd recommend upgrading from install CD/DVD to current which will cause a lot less headaches. Good luck. Hi all, I have read that many people are not happy to upgrade their linux using yum. However, I have just done this with my old FC5 distribution as emperorlinux and it worked perfectly! I was very impressed. I found these two links pretty helpful: YumUpgradeFaq – Fedora Project Wiki Upgrade FC5 to FC6 with yum @ IONCANNON Third party rpms seem to be a problem. I also had one dependency issue. In order to solve it, I just deinstalled the rpm and kept going. After your upgrade you can try to install it again. Mazer __________________ I was seduced by SUSE 5.1. Registered Linux User #451562 [...]

By: jasonz

jasonz — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:52:41 +0000

I have the same problem as ddn (#60), it complains about:
Error: Package elfutils needs elfutils-libelf = 0.119-1.2.1, this is not available.
Error: Package elfutils needs libdw.so.1(ELFUTILS_0.119), this is not available.
Error: Package cyrus-sasl needs cyrus-sasl-lib = 2.1.21-10, this is not available.
Error: Package elfutils needs elfutils-libs = 0.119-1.2.1, this is not available.

I checked, elfutils-libelf 0.119-1.2.1 is installed, and 0.128-2.fc6 is in the updates. I cant remove elfutils either, as it is required by yum….

Any suggestions?

By: Redgremlin

Redgremlin — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:50:50 +0000

One excellent starting point. Thank you.

One problem I had – I had the livna repos installed, and some RPMs like VLC. Removing these fixed the dependency issues.

My biggest problem was the
Error: Package autofs needs kernel for everything marked FC5.

It would appear therefore that the kernel message is erroneous, and generated because of one of the other kernel packages.

It now looks like I am now an FC6 man – until I do the FC7 bit!

Thanks again for pointing out the direction.