using yum to upgrade from FC1 to FC2?

[Ding Li]

Adam Williams wrote:

> Hi, I know its not recommended to use yum to upgrade from FC1 to FC2, 
> and that anaconda should be used.  I have a remote server though, and 
> I'd like to attempt to use yum to upgrade it from FC1 to FC2.  Does 
> anyone have any instructions on how to do this?  I put on the fedocra 
> core 2 release and fedora core 2's yum noarch RPMs and then tried yum 
> -y update and yum -y upgrade, but both return dependancy errors on 
> MySQL (i'm using mysql 4.0.1 rpms from mysql.com)  any suggestions, 
> thanks?
>
>
Adam,

If you get any dependency problem, just remove the package. For your 
case, what you need to do is 'rpm -e --nodeps mysql'. Then you run 'yum 
-y upgrade'. I believe there are more dependency problems, just remove 
all of them and give it a try.

Ding