[Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 60 Upgrade questions

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 17:37 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 17:17 -0400, Timothy C Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > I am running aurora on my ultra 60 and was trying to get openflash to
> > compile. Well, on the way there I upgraded glib and some other things
> > that broke nash. My questions are.. Is there a way, say to place all
> > the 'new prereqs' of an application down a tree like /opt and then
> > compile against that, while still keeping the old kernel?  Or .. how
> > do I figure out all of the dependencies for a new 'upgraded'
> > distribution...  Or do I have to wait for a new release of Aurora? If
> > I have to wait for a new release of Aurora, could you use some help
> > from someone who can compile and test ( and is really really bad about
> > coding?) 
> 
> So, right now, we're working on the installer for a Fedora 9 tree.
> Hopefully, that should resolve a lot of your issues by making them
> irrelevant. :)
> 
> In theory, it is possible to update to the newer package tree with yum
> on that Ultra60, but I haven't spent any time trying. Dennis Gilmore
> might have more information there...

its been awhile since I last attempted to update from corona to rawhide
using yum.  in that time things should be eaiser.  there was an issue
with mash that put the full sparc64 tree in the with the sparc bits.

if you disable the aurora repos and setup the development repo to 
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch

you should be able to just yum update and you will be running the sparc
rawhide tree which is a nearly complete updated F-9 tree.  it also has
some new goodies like openjdk. 

Ill try and do a fresh corona install and update to the rawhide tree
next week. keep in mind its basically a FC-6 to F-9 yum update in a
single shot.  the smaller your installed system the better it should
work.  less conflicts and other fun things to deal with.

Dennis