Upgrade guidance

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 16:33 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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?

>From elsewhere in the thread:

http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/


> > 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.

Packager error when you encounter that. Shouldn't ever happen, newer
distro should always have a higher NVR.


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Jarod Wilson
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