On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:29, Jesse Kline wrote: > Quoting "Toole, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Any one else tried fedora out? Comments? > > Here's my experience with upgrading so far: > > I'm trying to do a dist-upgrade from RedHat 9.0 to Fedora Core 1 for 2 reasons: > 1) I don't have easy physical access to the box so I'm working over ssh. > 2) Even if I did go to the box, it is an old machine and it does not read > burned CDs. > > It is a fairly minimalist installation as it just runs the dyndns client, > sendmail for mail forwarding, and it is setup for ftp, but the ftp server is > not running at the moment. I do have X on there, but no desktop environments of > anything like that. The box has a small HD (about 1.5 GB I think) of which the > OS takes up most of. > > The first meathod I tried was with apt. I downloaded the RPM for Fedora so it > already came with the Fedora sources. I did an apt-get update which took about > a minute to run, and then an apt-get dist-upgrade. After a minute or so it gave > me a list of the packages it was going to upgrade/install/remove. The newly > installed packages were going to take up about 100MB which was most of the > space thart I had left on the HD. OK, so I whent into redhat-config-packages > and got rid of some of the shit that I don't need. Of course I still had the > problem that apt wanted to d/l ~300MB worth of RPMs and I don't have the space > to accomodate that. I looked through the apt man page but I cannot find a way > to get apt to delete packages as it goes (does anyone know how?). > > So my second idea was to try yum in the hopes that it would be a little smarter > than apt. I downloaded the yum RPM and configured it for the Fedora source. I > then did a yum upgrade. The first thing it did was download all the headers for > the fedora RPMS. The yum website says this is a good thing because it speeds up > the upgrades and allows rpm to handle the deps. Problem is it took about 12 > hours to d/l all the headers (so much for fast). After it was done it exited > with the error that redhat-config-securitylevel required lokkit. OK but I have > lokkit already installed on the box, and yum didn't give me any information as > to what version number it was looking for. So I uninstalled redhat-config- > securitylevel and firstboot. Anyways to make a long story a little shorter, I > ran yum again this afternoon, and it started downloading the rpms. However I > suspect (seeing as it's not the brightest piece of software) that when I get > home tonight it will have downloaded enough rpms to fill up the HD, and exit > with an error. > > If anyone has any suggestions please let me know, as for yum it seems like crap > to me, if I ever do get Fedora installed I will be sticking with apt or up2date.
Yum is very good at handling dependancy problems. It is much better than apt-rpm. What it lacks though is a graphical interface. I think you will find that yum is very efficient in handling updates. Where as if you wanted to know what packages are available as 3rd Party addons, apt-rpm and synergy will be much more convenient to use. Though I am sure someone will do a frontend for Yum soon if it hasn't already been done. Interestingly up2date can use both yum and apt-rpm sources so I guess there's a GUI. regards, -- Mark Lane, CET mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hard Data Ltd. http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our Excellent 1U Systems! <--
