[Aurora-sparc-user] Re: Is there a how-to for upgrading to v2.0

[Jay Clukey - Systems Admin.]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:

>Once upon a time Tuesday 27 February 2007, Jay Clukey - Systems Admin. wrote:
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>>To whom it may concern:
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>>    I have looked around quite a bit on the Aurora Linux mailing lists
>>archives but have not been able to find anything relevant.
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>>    I currently am running Aurora Linux 1.92 on an Ultra5 and would like
>>to upgrade to v2.0.
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>>    Does anyone have any step-by-step instructions on how to do this?
>>Very similar to the excellent document written by Adam Kropelin to
>>upgrade from v1.0 to v1.92.
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>>    Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'd hate to trash my 1.92 box.
>>
>>    Is this even possible or is the difference too great between FC2 and 3?
>>
>>    TIA
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>There is not a huge amount of difference.  i think from memory  you should be 
>able to point yum at the 2.0 repositories and yum update   and it should be 
>smooth.
>
>Dennis
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Dennis:

   Thank-you for the reply. I apologize for the late response but you 
can probably imagine that the upgrade did not go as smoothly as I would 
have hoped.

   Somewhere along the way I totally munged my box and had to rebuild 
from scratch. Hind-site is wonderful. I would have hoped to have a set 
of the 2.0 ISOs but alas I still only have the 1.0 CDs that I burned 
some time ago.

   In any case, I am looking for a little more assistance from the list.

   I have totally rebuilt my box with 1.0 (and updated to the latest 1.0 
stuff).

   However, when I went to upgrade to 1.92, I found that I could not 
(via yum) as the "base" 1.92 stuff is no longer around. I figured that 
it was probably wiped when the 2.0 stuff was released (or shortly 
thereafter). I even tried to point yum to the base 1.0 stuff and to 1.92 
for the updates stuff. This was even worse.

   So, I figured that I would attempt to jump to 2.0 directly from 1.0 
as I figured at this point if I munged the box again, I could rebuild it 
in my sleep or by that time have a set of 2.0 ISOs. Again I ran into a 
brick wall as it appears that the headers directory is missing out of 
the base directory on the mirrors. The base URL that I am pointing to is 
as follows:

   http://<<yummified mirror>>/pub/aurora/build-2.0/sparc/os/Fedora/RPMS/

   Now, I am probably suffering from sleep deprivation as I am starting 
to think that I am just not getting it. Am I doing something wrong?

   I would really appreciate any help that anyone could offer. As always 
TIA.