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.

Install the Yum RPM
Edit /etc/yum.conf:

/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!

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Edit /etc/yum.conf:

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