I've brought a bunch of machines from RedHat 7.0 all the way up to RedHat 9.0 using apt4rpm. If they are largely vanilla machines it goes pretty smoothly. If you've updated the machine using Ximian it becomes pretty hinky. For the last couple machines I upgraded I simply removed all packages that had ximian in the package name before I started and that made things easier. I removed all ximian packages by repeatedly invoking a command something like this: rpm -e `rpm -qa | egrep -y ximian` I needed to invoke it repeatedly because each pass would free up some dependent packages. Note that I upgraded through each version (i.e. 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0) rather than doing it all in one big upgrade. My thinking was that package maintainers would be more likely to write helper scripts to move from the previous version, and would be less likely to write scripts to move from any version... Kent Eric Stanley wrote: > I did try to upgrade from 9 to Fedora Core 1 with apt4rpm and it didn't go > well. I did have a fair number of non-freshrpm packages installed (I used > freshrpm.net apt repository). > > HTH, > > Eric > > On Wednesday 31 December 2003 13:25, Yaron wrote: > >>Hey, >> >>On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Justin Kremer wrote: >> >>>apt4rpm is also a pretty good option for RH9 >>>http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/ >> >>Speaking of apt4rpm... I just installed it on a RH6.2 machine last night. >>I'm trying to get ext3 on that box, and while the kernel supports it, >>tune2fs, e2fsck and mount do not. I can't seem to find RPMs for newer >>versions that DO support them, and trying to manually upgrade to stuff >>from later versions of RH is scary... >> >>Has anyone used apt4rpm to upgrade Red Hat releases? That is, change the >>'6.2' in /etc/apt/sources.list to, say, '7.0', then '7.1', then '7.2' and >>gradually up to 9.0?... >> >> >>-Yaron >> >>-- >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list