FC4 to FC5 upgrade via YUM Question

[Jim Duda]

I finally figured out what happened.  I had inadvertantly turned on the enable flag for
some of the "development" repo files.  This indeed caused an upgrade to the latest.  I
had a mixture of fc5, fc6, and fc7 packages installed.

I restarted from the original FC4 base.  This time, I made sure all the devlelopement
packages were turned off.

The FC4 to FC5 upgrade went much smoother.  I did the install from another file
system using the --installroot option.  I needed to do this because for whatever reason,
I needed to remove the librpm4.4 package, which in turn causes yum to be removed.

Using the --installroot option from another file system allowed me to remove yum
then reinstall yum.

I have finally upgraded FC4 to FC5 via yum.

Jim

"Timothy Murphy" <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote in message news:eitsic$66h$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> Jim Duda wrote:
>
>> Can anyone explain why it appears I upgraded from FC4 to FC6?  Did that
>> really happen?
>
> What does "cat /etc/fedora-release" say?
>
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