On 4/17/07, Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@darkover.org wrote:
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:55:24PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 4/17/07, Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@darkover.org wrote:
I'm working on a formula to enable a clean upgrade from 4.4 to 5.0. Unfortunately, not only we have a big glibc upgrade on our way, we also have some nasty package fragmentation. The best exemple is xorg-x11-libs, which was separated in several (10+, perhaps) packages.
So far, I think the best plan is to create meta packages to solve this dependency hell. Lets call it meta-4.4to5.0-upgrade.noarch.rpm. This package should provide and requires the needed components.
Unfortunatelly, this will probably change from system to system, which can become very nasty. In that case, we have two ways to procede:
- A script that will create a package specific for that given
system 2) Several meta packages
I'm kind of leaning toward the second option, with a super meta package that will require them all (in case someone want to make things simples at the cost of installing extra packages).
Comments ? Suggestions ?
Are you looking for something otehr than anaconda for small memory or something? I do not see live updates working for the faint of heart from 4.4 -> 5.0 .
Nah, mostly remote systems, hosted on datacenters or somewhere else.
So far, the main problem I've encontered is really xorg. Go figure.
If xorg is the major stumbling block on a remote server why not simply do:
yum remove xorg*
before doing your upgrade?