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Easy upgrade to Fedora 19

A new Fedora release came out early this month and I eventually decided to perform the upgrade from Fedora 18. Since I had bad experiences in the past with the older PreUpgrade GUI and I didn’t have the time to play with the new FedUP tool, I decided to use yum which I find much […]

Create a yum repository with custom GPG-signed RPM packages

If you want to distribute RPMs to multiple machines that use yum (e.g. Red Hat / CentOS, Fedora) it is easier to create your own yum repository and populate it with packages. You can include any rpm you want provided that the package license allows distribution (I initially wanted to include jre in this guide, […]

Create a RHEL/CentOS local yum repo from the OS disk

Creating a local yum repository from the OS installer disk(s) (CD/DVD) can be useful in many situations where the machine doesn’t have Internet access to install additional packages. While the installer disk can still be used after the initial OS installation, it is more convenient to use a local repository especially if more than one […]

Upgrade Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 using YUM

Fedora 13 is due in less than 2 weeks (as of today) but I decided not to wait any longer and upgrade my existing Fedora 12 x86_64 installation. The following describes what you need to do to upgrade to Fedora 13 using yum. First, you need to upgrade these 2 packages: fedora-release-12-2.noarch fedora-release-notes-12.0.2-1.fc12.noarch Enabling the […]