redhat rpm upgrade

Upgrading redhat 6.2 to 9.2 I hit the problem of rpm 3->4
upgrade. I got failed dependancies on trying to upgrade,
some said version was too high, some said too low.
There was a database upgrade from db1 to db3, which
seems to have caused the problem with the upgrade.

After performing the rpm upgrade the upgrade function on the CD
should word to upgrade from 6.2 -> 7/8/9

The following instructions should work for the upgrade:

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##get the files...

ncftp ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/i386/

get rpm*

get db3-*

get popt-1.6.2-6x.i386.rpm



#exit ftp





##rebuild the database, to ensure sanity before we start

rpm --rebuilddb

rpm -Uvh db3-*

rpm -Uvh popt*

rpm -Uvh rpm*

##check reported version - should read 4.0.2

rpm --version

##now rebuild the database - this is where it changes from db1->db3

rpm --rebuilddb

##f

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Files and versions which I picked up:

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms      1073382 Nov  4 15:23 db3-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms      5368423 Nov  4 15:23 db3-devel-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms       749569 Nov  4 15:23 db3-utils-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms        55222 Nov  4 15:23 popt-1.6.2-6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms      1283762 Nov  4 15:23 rpm-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms        63876 Nov  4 15:23 rpm-build-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms       313646 Nov  4 15:23 rpm-devel-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r--    1 simonmcc ntms        32303 Nov  4 15:23 rpm-python-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm

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links:

http://rpm.redhat.com/hintskinks/rpmv3tv4/
[cache]


http://www.rpm.org/