Upgrade guidance

[Derek Atkins]

mike ledoux <mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> But I always go one step at a time.  Most recently I took one
>> machine from F7 -> 8 -> 9.   Unfortunately I suspect I'll have
>> a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;)
>
> Maybe less trouble than you think, the machine I'm sitting at right now
> was yum upgraded from fc2->3>4>5>6>7>8 not all that long ago, with little
> trouble.  The yumupgradefaq saved me finding the pitfalls myself.  :)

Do you know where I can find current repos of FC3, 4, and 5?

> I borked it pretty hard trying to yum upgrade from fc8->9 yesterday;
> some of the packages on a fully up-to-date fc8 system have higher
> version numbers than the same packages in the fc9 repositories, which
> made things interesting.  At least it is back up and running multi-user
> now, I just need to figure out what is causing gdm to crash.  I'm sure
> there are some "old" libraries hanging around causing the issue.

Oh, yeah, I hit this issue too.  Wasn't TOO hard to deal with manually,
but still quite annoying to have to.

-derek

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