Re: problem upgrading distro via yum - tried preupgrade ?
David Timms <[email protected]>
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Casey Boone wrote:
> I am experiencing a problem in trying to upgrade a machine from fc8 to
> fc9 via yum. What I am seeing is a lot of this:
Have you heard about preupgrade ? It seems to have been recently updated:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6045
It hasn't made updates-testing yet, but can downloaded straight from koji.
The idea was to:
- download only the required rpms to complete the upgrade {often lots
less than a full DVD}.
- download the boot/installer part
- configure the boot/installer part as a grub selection
When you are ready, you reboot, and the normal anaconda installer boots,
knows it's an upgrade and performs the upgrade {with required packages
already downloaded}.
I tried earlier versions, and they succeeded OK.
DaveT.