update from LinuxPPC to YellowDog 2.2

[Stefan Jeglinski]

>Is there a straight forward way to update to YellowDog 2.2 on a LinuxPPC
>system?
>
>I'd prefer to not blow away my existing partition.

It's pretty easy IMHO.

You primarily need to get to glibc2.2. For this see my post:

<http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-user/200203/msg00030.html>

The principle is the same as I originally described there, just use 
the rpms in the YDL 2.2 distro instead of kfukui's. Then just upgrade 
the rest of the distro as you see fit.

Carefully handle your dependencies, that's the key. Don't 
install/upgrade an rpm until you can satisfy all of them (yes it is 
possible - sometimes there are unresolvable conflicts and you need to 
use --force but I've found these cases to be innocuous for the most 
part).

If you want a one-button upgrade, forget it. If you have the time, 
you can do it without wiping anything. Good learning experience IMHO.


Stefan Jeglinski