[NTLUG:Discuss] redhat back in good graces

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:30:21PM -0600, Rev. wRy wrote:
> 
> rpm -ivh yum-2.0.4-1.noarch.rpm (from the Duke mirror)
> rpm -F /home/slot0k/fedora-release-1-3.i386.rpm
> yum upgrade
Actually by forcing the fedora-release yum now thinks you are running
fedora core 1 and there is nothing to upgrade to. Should work without that
as fedora-release obsoletes redhat-release so it will replace it.  You
should be able to remove fedora-release and reinstall redhat-release the
yum upgrade should work if you have a fedora base repository in your
yum.conf.  Yum update will not work, it has to be upgrade to handle
obsoletes.
> 
> Um, am I running RH9 on this particular box?  Or Fedora?

You are running RH9 still with release notes from Fedora Core 1
> 
> I'd be more interested in seeing how to move RH 7.2 machines to Fedora
> than 7.3, 8.0, or 9.
> 
For a migration, from a 7.x box, I would recommend a full install, as 7.3
-> 8.0 upgrade had some issues as I recall correctly.  7.x -> 9 or Fedora
Core 1 would probably not be any better... I think it was something to do
with the obsoletes list.

Justin