[ILUG] Upgrading Fedora Core from 4 ---> 5

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 14 April 2006 21:17, David wrote:

> I tried following the
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
>
> document but I get a failed dependancy when installing
> fedora-release5-5.noarch.rpm which reads
>
> fedora-release = 4 is needed by (installed)
> yum-fedorafaq-4-2006.02.03.no arch

Why not just remove it with "yum remove yum-fedorafaq"?

> This im a bit wary of as I know for sure Im running an up to date
> version of FC4 uname- r gives me
>
> 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.

Surely that is quite an old kernel?

> Anyone any ideas?

I upgraded FC-4 to FC-5 on one machine like this without any problem.
It took over 12 hours on a machine (Sony Picturebook C1VFK) with 192MB RAM,
with 1025 packages installed and 1850 "transactions".

Actually, there was one problem.
On re-booting, X failed.
Comparing /etc/X11/xorg.conf on a machine running FC-5
I saw that the kosher version had
        FontPath    "unix/:7100"
in place of the explicit FontPath's in the old xorg.conf .
But when I changed this it worked fine.


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