rootninja

Fedora 8 has just reached the end of support. If you insist on doing a yum upgrade instead of just saving your home partition and reinstalling the rest, here’s how to do the upgrade. It might help if you keep your fingers crossed while doing all the typing.

I just successfully upgraded my Fedora 8 text-only firewall and samba server using yum. Here are my notes from the process.

mkdir -p /root/upgrade/f8-f10
cd /root/upgrade/f8-f10
# gather info for potential recovery later
tar -C / -czf etc.tgz etc
rpm -qa –qf ‘%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n’ | sort > rpm.ls.f8
chkconfig –list > chkconfig.ls.f8
ifconfig > ifconfig
route -n > route-n
df -h > df-h
cp -p /boot/grub/grub.conf grub.conf.f8

# start the upgrade process
rpm -Uvh ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i38…
mv /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
mv /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.rpmnew /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

yum clean all

# tried toupgrade some core packages first.
# i hit a conflict, so had to resolve that…
yum update rpm\* yum\*
# file /usr/share/man/man5/dhcp-eval.5.gz from install of
# dhcp-4.0.0-33.fc10.i386 conflicts with file from package
# dhclient-3.0.6-12.fc8.i386
# file /usr/share/man/man5/dhcp-options.5.gz from install of
# dhcp-4.0.0-33.fc10.i386 conflicts with file from package
# dhclient-3.0.6-12.fc8.i386
rpm -e dhclient

yum update rpm\* yum\*
# Install 26 Package(s)
# Update 136 Package(s)
# Remove 0 Package(s)
# Total download size: 175 M

# WARNING: At this point
# named is off, fix named.conf error and start named so yum works
# vi is broken, so use nano

# replace packages removed for conflicts
yum install dhclient

yum upgrade
# Install 56 Package(s)
# Update 338 Package(s)
# Remove 0 Package(s)
# Total download size: 257 M

yum groupupdate Base
# Install 59 Package(s)
# Update 0 Package(s)
# Remove 0 Package(s)
# Total download size: 49 M

yum clean all

# make sure grub is installed on my boot device
grub-install /dev/sda

# gather some post upgrade data
rpm -qa –qf ‘%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n’ | sort > rpm.ls.f10

wc -l rpm.ls.f*
# 638 rpm.ls.f10
# 512 rpm.ls.f8

chkconfig –list > chkconfig.ls.f10
diff chkconfig.ls.f8 chkconfig.ls.f10|grep ‘:on’
# < ConsoleKit 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# > NetworkManager 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# > bluetooth 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# < kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# > pcscd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# > portreserve 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# < readahead_early 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# < readahead_later 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
# > stinit 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

# turn off new stuff that i don’t need or want
chkconfig NetworkManager off
chkconfig bluetooth off
chkconfig pcscd off

# adjust any changes in start order for daemons
pushd /etc/rc.d/init.d
for f in *; do /sbin/chkconfig $f resetpriorities; done
popd

# remove old pkgs no longer found in an active yum repository
for pkg in `package-cleanup –orphans|egrep -v ‘^Setting up yum’`; do
echo “Removing $pkg”;
rpm -e $pkg;
done

It would also be good to look through rpm.ls.f10 and remove any packages you don’t want or need.

Reboot. I recommend booting into single user the first time, just to reduce the variables for the trial run. Once things look ok, press ^D to logout and allow the system to finish booting to its default run level.

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