Update RedHat 9

[Ben Russo]

Ben Russo wrote:

> Jeff Allison wrote:
>
>> Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>
>>> Ben Russo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nowhereman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I essentially did it by adding the RedHat rawhide channel to a 
>>>> RedHat 9 box,
>>>> eventually the redhat-release package got updated and my universe 
>>>> suddenly
>>>> transformed from REDHAT to FEDORA.
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> How did you go through procedure?? please will you post step-by-step 
>>> instructions??
>>>
>>> Tnx
>>>
>>> Antonio
>>>
>> Or at least some hints
>>
>> Jeff
>
>
>
> Well, it is a little diffferent now then it was when I did it several 
> weeks ago
> because the packages have changed and the redhat ftp site paths have 
> changed.
>
> But, I have an RH9 box here, so what the heck....
>
> wget 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-1-1.i386.rpm 
>
> rpm -Uvh fedora-release-1-1.i386.rpm
> [root at loon root]# rpm -qa | grep release
> fedora-release-1-1
>                   ################## NOTE, "redhat-release" isn't 
> there any more.
>
>
> [root at loon root]# wget 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/up2date-4.1.14-2.i386.rpm 
>
> [root at loon root]# wget 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rhnlib-1.4-1.noarch.rpm 
>
> [root at loon root]# rpm -Uvh rhnlib-1.4-1.noarch.rpm 
> up2date-4.1.14-2.i386.rpm
> [root at loon root]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
>
>                    I don't know if you will have to re-do this on your 
> machine, but I had to do it on mine...
>    rhnreg_ks --force --username=MYRHNID --profilename=Bens-Home-WS  
> --password=RHNPASS --useNoSSLForPackages --email=ben at e-mail.domain.com
>
> [root at loon root]# wget 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-build-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm 
>
> [root at loon root]# wget 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-devel-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm 
>
> [root at loon root]# wget 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-python-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm 
>
> [root at loon root]# wget 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/beecrypt-3.0.1-0.20030630.1.i386.rpm 
>
> [root at loon root]# wget 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS/popt-1.8.1-0.30.i386.rpm 
>
> [root at loon root]# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm 
> rpm-build-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm rpm-devel-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm 
> rpm-python-4.2.1-0.30.i386.rpm beecrypt-3.0.1-0.20030630.1.i386.rpm 
> popt-1.8.1-0.30.i386.rpm
>
>
> No matter what I did up2date said I had to rpm --import 
> /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
> I also did /usr/bin/gpg --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
> That didn't completely solve the problem.
> first,  edited /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date  and set usegpg=0
>    even on clean installs of Fedora I have found that the up2date 
> processes
>    seem to have lot's of problems with package signatures.
> and I also set the     gpgKeyRing=/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
>
> Then I went to init 3, shutdown xfs, xinetd, portmap, sendmail, gpm, 
> syslog...
> basically everything that isn't necessary for up2date.
>
> Then I ran "up2date -u"
>
> [root at loon root]# up2date -u
>
> Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...
>
> Fetching 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
> ########################################
>
> Fetching package list for channel: updates-released...
>
> Fetching 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1/headers/header.
> info...
> ########################################
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-1...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> ....
> ((((  and it went on and on for HOURS )))).
>