Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[Tim Wunder]

On 12/13/2004 10:43 AM, I believe that Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.
>>>
<snip>

>>>
>>> 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.
> 

Asking the obvious (cuz sometimes that helps...):
Have you verified the repositories specified in your /etc/yum.conf?

HTH,
Tim