Hi,
In the advent of RHEL5 and CentOS 5, I've been rebuilding the RPMforge packages for EL5. You can find these at the usual location[*]. A few points though:
+ Not all RPMforge packages are available at this time
+ If you find a package that you need and isn't there, please do look at the buildlogs and send me instructions on how to fix this specific build. (Saves us time having to go through it ourselves)
+ 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. If you find that some EL4 package is not replace by its EL5 counterpart, let me know.
+ If you see FC6 tagged packages, don't panic ! These are official RHEL5 packages. RPMforge does not provide fc6-tagged packages for RHEL5. ANd we do not recommend installing these (even if they seem to work).
Enjoy RHEL5 !
PS To me it looks like it could finally replace the current desktop OS of relatives. (low-risk updates, security fixes for 7 years, no changing parts)
[*] http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/ http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/ http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/repodata/
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
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.
Bart Schaefer spake the following on 3/14/2007 9:08 AM:
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.
A yum upgrade between major versions has never worked well. You either get orphans, or dependency hell. An anaconda upgrade still can leave some orphans, but you can at least get a working system most of the time.
On 3/14/07, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
A yum upgrade between major versions has never worked well.
Yes, I know, but there was some discussion (on the "CentOS 5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64 is released" thread, I think) to the effect of "if anybody wants to try it, let us know what happens." So ...
Bart Schaefer spake the following on 3/14/2007 10:47 AM:
On 3/14/07, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
A yum upgrade between major versions has never worked well.
Yes, I know, but there was some discussion (on the "CentOS 5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64 is released" thread, I think) to the effect of "if anybody wants to try it, let us know what happens." So ...
I thought the discussion was about the possibility of beta to 5 with yum. But it has been a long week.
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Scott Silva