Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[Michael Hipp]

David Bandel wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:56:39 -0600, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> Well, I'm certainly no RH expert (far from it, I eschew RH), however,
> if you have yum/apt-rpm installed (if not, install that first), why
> don't you see if it will resolve your dependencies for you?  After
> all, isn't that why the RPM world is adopting Debian's apt?  Apt-rpm
> may even allow you to upgrade straight to FC3 if you point it at the
> right sources.

Thanks. All the above is done with yum. That appears to be the favored 
tool and it generally works well. But it (or something) is failing badly 
here.

Michael