[nflug] Hacking files in /etc/yum.repos.d

[Sam Stern]

> 1. Are there any possible or probable repercussions to doing this?
>     a. What is the potential to hosing the system, beside the 
> aforementioned RPM hell, especially considering that some RPMs I've 
> installed are newer than what came with FC4?  Additionally, 
> will I have 
> a bona fide FCx system if I replace $releasever with x in the 
> applicable 
> files, then run yum?
>     b.  Is Red Hat OK with me doing this my way?  Am I taxing 
> bandwidth 
> of the yum repositories unfairly or unethically?  Are there any other 
> considerations I should be on to?
> 2. If my way be valid, why (other than the convenience of speed, 
> considering downloading an ISO and burning a disc from it is 
> faster than 
> downloading from a yum depository) would one want to burn a disc?
> 3. Does anyone see any advantage to doing it my way, in terms 
> of a more 
> thorough or elsewise better upgrade?
> 

HI Again,

I'm sorry, I replied too quickly to your email and left off this paragraph:

Dist-upgrade with yum is not a well tested process. Using apt, the process
usually ends in unmitigated disaster for any distro other than debian (and
even then it never seems to work quite right). I would suggest instead that
you re download the iso (I would think that the iso you have is corrupted)
then burn a new dvd from that iso using your favorite tool like k3b. Then
normalize your yum files as I suggested and finally upgrade via your dvd.

Good luck

Sam S.

References:

<https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-January/005871.html>
<http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/63460-yum-upgrade
-fc4-fc5-issues.html>
And of course a Google for "fedora core yum dist upgrade"


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