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

[Jeff Norton]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:34:47 -0600
"Jay Clukey - Systems Admin." <jclukey at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> 
> >Once upon a time Tuesday 27 February 2007, Jay Clukey - Systems Admin. wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>To whom it may concern:
> >>
> >>    I have looked around quite a bit on the Aurora Linux mailing lists
> >>archives but have not been able to find anything relevant.
> >>
> >>    I currently am running Aurora Linux 1.92 on an Ultra5 and would like
> >>to upgrade to v2.0.
> >>
> >>    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.
> >>
> >>    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
> >>    
> >>
> >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
> >  
> >
> 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.
> 
> 
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You could probably use rpm and upgade yum and then point it 2.0