John Logsdon wrote:
> I have a problem.
> 
> Scenario:
> 
> I have a CentOS4.4 box that I want to upgrade to SL5.0.  So I tried some 
> procedures on another box.  

I have a box that was originally Fedora Core 3. Over time, I built 
almost all of RHEL4 source making only those changes necessary - note, 
since this is for private purposes I don't have to bother with artwork, 
trademark symbols etc.

My ~ on that system has an ancient, troubled history and dates back to 
RHL 7.x (at least), and includes a spell on Debian Woody. Yes, there are 
still vestiges of that.

I applied all the relevant results and basically got to an unofficial 
RHEL. Approximately equivalent to CentOS, SL and WBEL.

Last week I acquired a box to replace this. Rather than fiddle with the 
upgrade path you're trying, I chose to install afresh.

On nahant-clone I ran "rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n'" so as to get a list of 
packages (I don't want names polluted with version info).

I then used this as input on SL5 to run "yum install" against every 
package not already installed.

It took a while, but the results seem pretty good. It even picked up pine.

Then, I created my user account and copied ~ for a few users from the 
old system. I've not copied my crontab yet. Really must do that RSN.

The most serious problem I had was with seamonkey, and that's documented 
in the archives.

There is undoubtedly some undone system configuration remaining, but 
possibly your approach would have similar concerns.




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Cheers
John

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