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Thu, 08 Feb 2007

Hackish way to upgrade FC5 to FC6 using yum on x86_64.


It does not work as described in the web due to problems in ELF libs dependency. And you can not replace it with --nodeps flag since rpm stops to work with new utils. So, what you need, is following steps:

• backup content of the following FC5 rpms:
  • elfutils-0.119-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.119-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.119-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm
  By content I mean files and dirs which will be put into /usr dir when installed (use mc or cpio).
• install following libs from FC6 distro with --nodeps flag:
  • elfutils-0.123-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.123-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.123-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
• run yum update (implied you have installed fedora-release-6* rpms)
• copy content of the elf libs from FC6 and remove old elf libs from FC5

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