>> Looking for some help from the Red Hat users on this list (or
>> knowledgable others). I've tried a couple of times before to
>> upgrade my existing RH 5.0 system to one of the test kernels, but
>> I usually end up screwing up one thing or another. I have read the
>> documentation, and I've tried to upgrade almost of the packages
>> necessary as listed by the minimum version numbers in the
>> documentation.
>> If anyone is currently running RH 5.0, and has successfully gotten
>> to the point of running a test kernel, I would like to discuss the
>> steps that you took to get to that point.
In my case, here's the procedure I used to update to the latest of
everything...I use the RedHat mirror on SunSite.doc.ic.ac.uk but the
following should also work with RedHat's own site...
Q> #!/bin/bash
Q> mkdir /redhat
Q> mount -t nfs -o ro,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 \
Q> 193.63.255.4:/public/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/ /redhat
Q> cd /redhat/pub/redhat/current/updates/i386
Q> for Z in *.i386.rpm ; do
Q> X=`echo $Z | sed 's/-[0-9]*\./ /' | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
Q> Y=`rpm -q $X 2> /dev/null`
Q> if [ "$Y" != '' ]; then
Q> if [ $Y.i386.rpm != $Z ]; then
Q> echo "Updating $Y.i386.rpm to $Z" >&2
Q> rpm -Uvh $Z
Q> fi
Q> fi
Q> done
Q> cd /
Q> umount /redhat
Q> rmdir /redhat
The result of the above sequence is that ALL of your currently
installed RedHat-supplied RPM's are updated to the latest versions,
thus reducing the problems caused by old versions...
Best wishes from Riley.
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