Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[Michael Hipp]

To make a long story long ...

My local server is bad in need of upgrading and I decided to do it by 
the cli/network method rather than using the disks since I have several 
more to do after this and most are some considerable distance from here.

I tried upgrading RH9 -> FC3 but that appears nigh impossible. So I 
dropped back to a stepwise approach and am at the RH9 - > FC1 step. 
Unfortunately the box I'm upgrading was installed as RH9 with "everything".

I'm using the instructions at:
   http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
which seems pretty straightforward.

I got it upgraded to the FC1 'yum' and 'fedora-release'.

First 'pine' and 'cadaver' complained of dependency problems so I 
uninstalled those.

Then it was:
   package redhat-config-securitylevel needs lokkit (not provided)
But:
   redhat-config-securitylevel is installed and the latest version.
   lokkit is installed and the latest version.

So I uninstalled 'redhat-config-securitylevel' figuring I could put it 
back later.  I had to uninstall 'firstboot' to make that possible.

Now I've got:
   Resolving dependencies
   ......identical dependency loop exceeded
   package jdkgcj needs gcc-java = 3.2.2 (not provided)
   package jdkgcj needs libgcj = 3.2.2 (not provided)

I'm now getting into things I don't know if I need and I'm wondering if 
this could continue forever.

Can someone offer some advice? (Something other than comments about the 
ancestry and mating habits of RPM distros - which, at the moment, I have 
no comeback for). I've got several more RH9 boxes and one RH7.3 that 
will have to be put through this soon also.

It's possible that this whole problem was caused by my installing a 
bunch of stuff from Fedora Legacy. The other boxes don't have that problem.

Thanks,
Michael