[NTLUG:Discuss] What designates what version you're running?

[Wayne Dahl]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 01:36, Terry wrote:

> I once talked to someone that's done a few of successful RH9-FC1
> upgrades.  He just did it using "yum -y update" and he gave me his
> notes:
> ===============================
>  All I usually did for a rh9->fc1 upgrade was:  1) clean out all the kernels,
> rpm -e each kernel I wasn't currently using.  2) install yum on rh9 with a
> yum.conf pointing to fc1 repos.  3) manually upgrade redhat-release package.
> 4) actually do the upgrade:  "yum -y update"
> http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt
> ===============================
> From: IRC channel #scalug

Do you know what he meant with #3?  Manually upgrade redhat-release
package??  I haven't found a package under that name anywhere at the
fedoralegacy repository.  Is that under another name?  I suspect that's
why this box in some places looks like a FC1 box and in others looks
like a RH9 box.

Thanks,

Wayne