[CentOS-devel] 4.4 -> 5.0 upgrade (considerations)

[Alastair Neil]

On 4/17/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at 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 at 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:
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> > >1) 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 .
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> Nah, mostly remote systems, hosted on datacenters or somewhere else.
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> 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?
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