Fighting With Fedora
by Kevin on Sunday, April 27 at 12:23 AM GMT-4
Well, that was a fun project. The server this all runs on had been a tad neglected in terms of updates. It was still running Fedora Core 4, which isn't exactly current. I hadn't been too concerned until Parallels announced that they would no longer be supporting Plesk on FC4, so an upgrade had to happen.
Usually this isn't too much trouble, just install the proper fedora release rpm and then do a "yum upgrade". Plesk throws a huge monkey wrench into it though.
Luckily, Atomic Rocket Turtle offers up some proper Plesk RPMs that made an easy upgrade. After adding these repositories to yum, things went a lot smoother. I did have to uninstall a few packages to get past dependency issues and then just reinstall the newer ones after.
Usually this isn't too much trouble, just install the proper fedora release rpm and then do a "yum upgrade". Plesk throws a huge monkey wrench into it though.
Luckily, Atomic Rocket Turtle offers up some proper Plesk RPMs that made an easy upgrade. After adding these repositories to yum, things went a lot smoother. I did have to uninstall a few packages to get past dependency issues and then just reinstall the newer ones after.
The biggest problem was the box had been up for 600 days. On the reboot, a couple hours of fscking was due. Made me a bit nervous, but it did eventually come back up. I had some issues with the smp kernel booting, but another easy fix in the grub.conf file.
I'm actually shocked that the yum upgrades went as smoothly as they did.
I'm actually shocked that the yum upgrades went as smoothly as they did.
