[CentOS] Moving from whitebox 4.2 to centos

Mon Oct 31 15:27:14 UTC 2005
Mike Kercher <mike at CamaroSS.net>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nick Wales
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:09 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Moving from whitebox 4.2 to centos
> 
> I've been following the faq for moving from whitebox to 
> centos (which admittedly is for release 3, but using the 
> equivalent release 4 files) and keep getting stuck when 
> installing the centos-release-4-2.1 rpm which says it should 
> replace whitebox-release4.2
> 
> However this is not happening, giving me the following
> 
> rpm -Uvh
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-r
> elease-4-2.1.i386.rpm
> Retrieving
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-r
> elease-4-2.1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         /etc/whitebox-release is needed by (installed)
> initscripts-7.93.11.EL-1.WB1.i386
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nick
> 
> 

Try downloading the initscripts for Centos and install it at the same time.
I've had to --force the -release rpm before too.

Mike