On 3/14/07, Dag Wieers dag@wieers.com wrote:
- Upgrading from RHEL4 to RHEL5 using Anaconda does work. Even when people do not recommend it for various reasons. You should be able to update your packages directly to EL5.
For the record, upgrading via "yum upgrade" does not appear to work. I proceeded as follows (using vmware so I could revert snapshots if anything went wrong):
: mv /etc/yum.repos.d /etc/yum.repos.d.CentOS4 : rpm -Uvh centos-release-4.92-4.i386.rpm : cp /etc/yum.repos.d.CentOS4/rpmforge.repo /etc/yum.repos.d : yum upgrade yum
The end result (half an hour of dependency resolution later) is 27 packages that have dependencies on at least 30 other packages that are not available, plus 2 conflicts. So I tried a straight
: yum upgrade
which leaves me with the following:
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies Error: Package VFlib2 needs libttf.so.2, this is not available. Error: Package crypto-utils needs libnewt.so.0.51, this is not available. Error: Package subversion needs libaprutil-0.so.0, this is not available. Error: Package kudzu needs kernel < 2.6.13, this is not available. Error: Package seamonkey needs seamonkey-nss = 1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos, this is not available. Error: Package seamonkey needs seamonkey-nspr = 1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos, this is not available. Error: Package subversion needs libapr-0.so.0, this is not available. Error: Package autofs needs kernel < 2.6.17, this is not available. Error: Package wine-core needs /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage, this is not available. Error: Package hal needs kernel < 2.6.17, this is not available. Error: Package initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12, this is not available. Error: Package subversion needs libneon.so.24, this is not available. Error: Package newt-perl needs libnewt.so.0.51, this is not available. Error: Package nfs-utils needs libevent-1.1a.so.1, this is not available.