Upgrading from RH9 to Fedora 0.94

Is it possible to upgrade to Fedora 0.94 from RH9, by upgrading the
packages individually?

What packages do I need to upgrade on my RH9 system to make up2date look
for Fedora packages?

TIA

My guess would be "no", given this information:

http://www.fedora.us/

"September 22, 2003

* Red Hat Linux Project is merging with the Fedora Linux Project,
and the resulting combined project will be named the Fedora Project.

* During the next few months, Fedora and Red Hat will work toward
integrating our packages, infrastructure, policies, and procedures with
the goal of creating a much larger community based Linux distribution
project. Until this new infrastructure is ready, Fedora will continue to
publish packages using the old infrastructure at fedora.us, while the
new project infrastructure, policies and documentation will be formed at
fedora.redhat.com."


-John



Skip wrote:

> Is it possible to upgrade to Fedora 0.94 from RH9, by upgrading the
> packages individually?
>
> What packages do I need to upgrade on my RH9 system to make up2date look
> for Fedora packages?
>
> TIA
>

Skip wrote:
> Is it possible to upgrade to Fedora 0.94 from RH9, by upgrading the
> packages individually?

yes, you can do that, one of the things that is suggested (of corse things can
go wrong) is to download the fedora/rawhide RPMs to a directory and then do a
'rpm -Uvh *' which will take a good while.


> What packages do I need to upgrade on my RH9 system to make up2date look
> for Fedora packages?

You need to upgrade your up2date to the version supplied with fedora or use
the apt-get that will be back in fedora from version 0.94.

Take a look at the fedora pages and if you need help, I suggest you visit the
fedora irc channel.


//Aho

J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:

> Skip wrote:
> > Is it possible to upgrade to Fedora 0.94 from RH9, by upgrading the
> > packages individually?
>
> yes, you can do that, one of the things that is suggested (of corse things can
> go wrong) is to download the fedora/rawhide RPMs to a directory and then do a
> 'rpm -Uvh *' which will take a good while.

An "rpm -Fvh' would be better I think, as it only updates those packages
already installed and would not install every package of Fedora.

>
> > What packages do I need to upgrade on my RH9 system to make up2date look
> > for Fedora packages?
>
> You need to upgrade your up2date to the version supplied with fedora or use
> the apt-get that will be back in fedora from version 0.94.
>
> Take a look at the fedora pages and if you need help, I suggest you visit the
> fedora irc channel.
>
>
> //Aho

Alexander


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Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Skip wrote:
>>
>>>Is it possible to upgrade to Fedora 0.94 from RH9, by upgrading the
>>>packages individually?
>>
>>yes, you can do that, one of the things that is suggested (of corse things can
>>go wrong) is to download the fedora/rawhide RPMs to a directory and then do a
>>'rpm -Uvh *' which will take a good while.
>
>
> An "rpm -Fvh' would be better I think, as it only updates those packages
> already installed and would not install every package of Fedora.

The -Fvh will most likely give you dependency problems, packagenames changes,
new packages won't be fixed by -Fvh, only by -Uvh, but of course it has the
drawback that everything is installed.


//Aho