On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: |+++ Shiju Indrat [linux-india] <28/01/02 10:10 -0800>: |> I have Red Hat 6.1 installed on my system. Further I |> have the complete set of rpm's for RH 7.1 in a |> directory on my system. Can someone tell me the order |> in which i should upgrade the packages using the |> command rpm so that rh6.1 becomes rh7.1 and i don't |> face any dependancy problems. | |Oh my god. You are far safer installing from the CD and selecting 'upgrade' |- or just reinstalling, leaving your /home partition untouched.
>From my one-time experience of upgrading automagically from RH5.2 to Rh6.0 ... if there was one thing I learnt was to never use that option again. Far too many binaries broke to be listed ! Reinstalling from scratch would be a cleaner way out. But if you are really adventurous(like me!;-) I did a manual upgrade using the RPMS from 6.x to 7.0 and then to 7.1 .. and will be moving over to 7.2 soon(rpms are already on my hdd)... use the -Fvh option to upgrade. say start with glibc .. rpm -Fvh glibc-* and you'll get tons of dependency errors... add all of them to the end of the list rpm -Fvh glibc-* apache* sendmail* etc etc (keep repeating the above steps.. over and over again.. and once you bring the differences to a bare minimum ... and can't go any further.. you'll have to uninstall those particular apps alone... and then try the rpm -Fvh with all the packages listed at the end... (until this point nothing would have changed on ur system.) And after it goes through everything would have been updated. you face the biggest problems with KDE and Gnome ... removing them completely and reinstalling is easier... no idea what side-effects it causes if you actively use it.... because I dont'! Kingsly PS: you'll have to upgrade from rpm3 to rpm4 before you do it. If you find the above method scary... go for a fresh install after backing up the data. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
