Re: Error when running Yum

On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:57 -0500, Tim Dotson wrote:
> I can't update that way because this is a remote server.
> 

You can do remote server upgrades by vnc kickstarts. 

> It looks like using yum to update up to RH9 isn't too difficult, and
> then from RH9 to Fedora is about equally challenging.

yes - but the shift from 2.4 kernel to 2.6 kernel requires some
trickery.

If you're committed to doing it this way strip the box down to as few
pkgs as possible. It will make the multiple upgrades much faster and
more likely to work.


> I have rpm 4.1.1 and I yum 2.0 is installed.  Python is 2.1.

and these are on a 7.3 box?

run:

python --version
rpm --version
rpm -q rpm-python yum

-sv