Re: [vserver] upgrading guests from fc4 to fc6

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue 04 Sep 2007 - 15:22:06 BST
Message-ID: <20070904142206.GC10006@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:19:59PM -0700, Eric Jorgensen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade some guests I have that were created as fc4 to fc6. The steps that I've been following is:
>
> - download fedora-release and fedora-release-notes
> - install them in guest:
> vrpm v003 -- -U fedora-release-*
> - edit the guests pointer to the repository
> cd /vservers/.pkg/v003/yum/etc
> rm yum.repos.d
> ln -s /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/fc6/yum.repos.d .
> - clean the cache
> vyum v003 -- clean all
> - try to do the upgrade
> vyum v003 -- update
>
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
>
>
> I tried running it with --debug, but didn't get any other
> debugging info from the vnamespace command that runs the yum.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!

I'm sure Daniel will have more details shortly, but
you could try to internalize the package system in
a copy of your fc4 guest and simply do the 'normal'
fc4->fc5->fc6 update sequence (whatever that might
involve) inside the guest (ignoring all the bootloader
and similar stuff)

just an idea,
Herbert

> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 4 15:24:05 2007

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