Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp 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

Impossible how/why?

> 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.

That seems likely.  I doubt Fedora has any understanding of the legacy
packages.

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