DA + yum upgrade

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Trying to use yum upgrade to upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 (and then later to FC5) but it's giving me a ton of dependency errors. I don't get any of these errors on a non-DA system so I'm wondering if there's anything specific I need to do on DA. I do have da* excluded in the yum.conf file. Errors pertain to awstats, httpd, perl, foomatic. Tried to use yum --exclude on all of those but still fails. Any suggestions? Do I need to update DA before I upgrade the OS? Thanks in advance!
 
Nothing in DA should cause dependencies in yum.

Do you have awstats installed from yum? If so, then of course yum might require dependencies fulfilled.

Why are you trying to update httpd through yum? DA uses its own httpd install, from source.

Perl and foomatic, if installed from RPMs, may require dependencies.

Jeff
 
That's just it - I'm not trying to update httpd from yum. I'm going to try to yum remove httpd, if it lets me due to dependencies, and try again. Correct me if I'm wrong, but DA doesn't depend on any rpms correct? If I recall, it compiles and installs everything it needs from source, aside from the general OS RPMs that get updated.
 
No there is quite a few that DA does not touch such as MySQL. You can use yum/rpm to update it.

I am not sure of the complete list of what customapache takes care of but if you look in the build file it has them listed. There are other things like phpmyadmin and squirrelmail that are also taken care of from source with scripts. Again I do not have a complete list.

Sure would be nice to have a complete list, such as to update these apps use customapache, to update these apps use these scripts, to update everything else use yum/rpm/custom install/etc.
 
It's easy enough to figure out what customapache updates.

I'd like a complete list of everything DA needs/uses, and how it gets installed/updated.

Jeff
 
Was thinking about upgrading Fedora from 3 to 4 using Yum too

Hi,

Was just wondering if anyone was able to successfully upgrade from Fedora 3 to 4 using Yum with Directadmin (without any major issues)?

Thanks,

Keith
 
Yes, I've updated Fedora 3 to 4 ~15-20 times without any issues. Good luck!
 
jlasman said:
It's easy enough to figure out what customapache updates.

I'd like a complete list of everything DA needs/uses, and how it gets installed/updated.

Jeff
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I would like this list as well. It's confusing to me right now, but I'm sure it will get clearer the more I do it, how to update everything that DA needs. Some things get updated through the build script, some have other scripts, some get updated by yum, and some get updated by DA RPMs (like Exim).
 
I believe the new Custombuild is supposed to resolve these issues, when it's finally done and working for everyone.

Jeff
 
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