[plug] Upgrade fc4 to fc6

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 4/26/07, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently tried to update a friends fc4 server (neglected in the update
> department for quite some time).  The primary aim was to get it to fc6.
>
> When I ran yum update (with the intention of bringing it up to the
> latest in fc4) I got a number of missing dependencies and a partly
> broken system.  I could no longer log in remotely, and my friend could
> no longer log in locally.  Samba and apache were still working (so for
> the time being all was not lost as its primary purpose was as a web
> server). yum.conf looked to be in its original state (from memory, as I
> can't get in to look anymore).  Is this sort of behaviour to be expected
> from an unmaintained fc4 system?  I was assuming the behaviour would
> follow the debian model, ie, if an upgrade doesn't work, back out
> completely.
>
> Given that I'm now pursuing option 2 (build a CentOS system on a spare
> disk, restore web sites from backup and swap it in later) I no longer
> need to fix it, but just for the record, can anyone tell me what
> procedure I should have used?  In hindsight, I should have asked here
> first.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tim Bowden
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If you used yum to update, then no it's not apt and the yum upgrade path is
difficult and unsupported. There's a page at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq for general help and pitfalls.

But basically for Debian-ers don't assume yum is a drop in replacement for
apt. The supported upgrade path is with a CD/DVD upgrade.

However, I have done FC4 yum upgrades successfully before so it's not
impossible..

Tomasz
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