Yum rocks!
Upgraded my RH9 box to Fedora core 1 tonight with Yum. The only reboot was after the install finished, ie I didn’t even reboot to start the install. Very simple.
1 Install the Yum
RPM
2 Edit /etc/yum.conf:
[core]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://www.muug.mb.ca/mirror/redhat/fedora/linux/core/1/$basearch/os/
[updates]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
baseurl=http://www.muug.mb.ca/mirror/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/$basearch/
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/$basearch/freshrpms
(Note I’ve chosen a different server for the Fedora RPMs)
3 - Run yum upgrade
4 - Reboot into new kernel
Aside from an odd hardware glitch, no serious problems. My box was still usable during the upgrade!
It’s even easier with Debian
February 8th, 2004 at 10:13 pmp.s. — got this on the preview button.
MT::App::Comments=HASH(0×810ac38) Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at /home/www/html/blog/lib/MT/Template/Context.pm line 1187.
Try as I might, I just can’t bring myself to liking Debian. Red Hat just makes sense to me.
I am glad that I can finally do the debian like upgrade-in-place, though.
I’ll have to take a peek into that error… I see it, too. Hmmm, looks like a bug in MT’s new url redirection / antispam thing, the uninitialized value in question seems to be the id part of the query string.
Sean
February 8th, 2004 at 10:25 pmI know Fedora had a clunky start, I even had to pass, but seems as of late the latest patched ( Me use ‘apt-get upgrade’) brings it to a usable happy boxen. Think it may be time to try it again. Any one like MEPIS?
February 10th, 2004 at 1:14 pm