[CentOS] yum upgrade 4.3 -> current ?

[Matt Hyclak]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 07:01:11PM -0500, Chris Boyd enlightened us:
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Craig White wrote:
> 
> >kill off any rpm/yum processes...
> >then
> >
> >rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
> >rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> >then try yum
> 
> Still no joy.  Yum appears to be ready to consume all available  
> system memory and swap.
> 
> I'm going to try adding a swap file, shutting off the database server  
> and Apache, and then letting it churn.
> 

If it were me, I would download the latest yum+dependencies and install them
via rpm before trying to debug an old yum.

Matt

-- 
Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263