Yum upgrade from FC2 to FC3 possible?

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:11 -0700, Tony Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:34:05AM +0100, Paul wrote:
> 
> I clearly don't understand yum :-)
> 
> If I use your config file [as below], I get a 404 trying to download for the 
> [base] section (regarcless of server), because my version is 1.90 not "1"

It appears that you are running the ancient FC2T1 (1.90).  You would
have to replace "$releasever" with the desired number (2.90 for FC3T1)
in Paul's yum.conf; however, to upgrade to development/rawhide/test-
release I would not include anything but [development] in any case.

...

> If I comment out everything but the [development] section from your
> config file I get the same crash as before:
> 
> 	Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - Development tree
> 	Finding updated packages
> 	Downloading needed headers
> 	Traceback (most recent call last):
>   	  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>     	  	yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   	  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 253, in main
>     	 	clientStuff.download_headers(HeaderInfo, nulist)
>   	  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 919, in download_headers
>     		cachedbdict = returnCacheDBHeaders(nulist)
>   	  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 901, in returnCacheDBHeaders
>     		mi = cachedb.dbMatch()
> 	UnboundLocalError: local variable 'cachedb' referenced before assignment

Try "rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*" (or "mv /var/cache/yum /var/cache/
yum_old ; mkdir /var/cache/yum" if you are conservative) then try again
with only the [development] stanza in yum.conf - will need to download
all those FC3T1 headers anyway.

Phil