Unable to upgrade from FC9 to FC10

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 03:01:57 UTC 2009


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:40 AM, James Allsopp
<jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Ah the solution was to yum clean all, worked nicely.
>
>
> Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
>> yum -y update
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:05 PM, James Allsopp
>> <jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm trying to upgrade from FC9 to FC10 using yum,
>>> I've checked for any rpmnew packages,
>>> I've removed most orphans.
>>> Switched selinux to disabled/permissive
>>> Updated fedora-release using
>>>
>>> rpm -Uhv
>>> ftp://download.fedora.redhat/com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-*noarch.rpm
>>>
>>> yum repolist show fedora, livna, rpm fusion and updates all showing
>>> fedora 10
>>>
>>> cat /etc/fedora-release shows Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)
>>>
>>> but when I hit
>>> yum upgrade
>>>
>>> It says the system is up to date, but a uname -r shows it's using
>>> 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686
>>>
>>> Any help would be most appreciated.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> James

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but isn't "preupgrade" the
preferred method of upgrading from one release to another?

Richard




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