Help Needed: FC5 Blocker List and Rawhide Install Testing

[Patrice Dumas]

Hello,

I don't know if it is the kind of input that is usefull, but here it is.
I tried a yum update from FC-4 to rawhide. I have general comments, packages
leftovers, and Xorg modularization leftovers.

1) General

Things went rather smoothly. Some scriptlet said somethings (but I didn't
kept what they said). There was a failure in hal post scriptlet (no other
error message than the message saying there was an error), so I ended with 
the old hal still present in the rpmdb. There is nothing in logs, so I 
guess reporting this failure isn't usefull. 

2) Leftovers

After the update, I had those packages from fc4 still installed:

gnome-kerberos system-config-mouse comps perl-XML-Encoding gimp-gap
iiimf-libs

I could remove them without any issue, and they didn't blocked any update.

I investigated a bit, gnome-kerberos system-config-mouse and gimp-gap
weren't needed by anything, comps was needed by an apt subpackage (from
extras if I'm not wrong),  perl-XML-Encoding was needed by foomatic and
perl-libxml-enno, and it seems that perl-libxml-enno has been obsoleted
by other perl modules. iiimf subsystem seems to have been obsoleted by 
scim.

Maybe anaconda knows how to deal with these packages? Otherwise they could
appear in the wiki as packaged dropped from core that could be imported
in extra (if it makes sense). Otherwise I don't have much idea on how
to get rid of them during the yum upgrade. I believe they may block
updates later...

3) X modularization

It is possible that anaconda knows how to deal with those issues.

Many unowned include files and directories are kept in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/
ls /usr/X11R6/include/X11/
ap_keysym.h   fonts         RectObjP.h    Xatom.h       Xfuncs.h   xpm.h
bitmaps       HPkeysym.h    Shell.h       Xauth.h       X.h        Xpoll.h
Composite.h   ICE           ShellP.h      Xaw           XKBlib.h   Xproto.h
CompositeP.h  Intrinsic.h   SM            Xaw3d         Xlib.h     Xprotostr.h
ConstrainP.h  IntrinsicP.h  StringDefs.h  Xcms.h        Xlibint.h  Xresource.h
Constraint.h  keysymdef.h   Sunkeysym.h   Xcursor       Xlocale.h  Xthreads.h
Core.h        keysym.h      Vendor.h      Xdefs.h       Xmd.h      Xutil.h
CoreP.h       Object.h      VendorP.h     Xdmcp.h       Xmu        XWDFile.h
cursorfont.h  ObjectP.h     X10.h         XF86keysym.h  Xosdefs.h
DECkeysym.h   PM            Xalloca.h     Xft           Xos.h
extensions    RectObj.h     Xarch.h       Xfuncproto.h  Xos_r.h

A dangling symlink to X was also kept.

There are also some empty directories unowned under /usr/X11R6/ (man, lib)
and directories within.

lib/modules/input
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11:
app-defaults  fonts  getconfig  locale  proxymngr  xdm
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/pt_BR.UTF-8/

In /usr/X11R6/include there are also the following unowned directories that
should belong to openmotif:
Mrm  uil  Xm
The files within those directories belong to openmotif-devel-2.3.0-0.1.9.2.

In fact there is a link from /usr/include/Mrm to ../X11R6/include/Mrm
and similarly for Xm and uil.

There is a bug about openmotif,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170947
but it was closed.

Hope it helps.

--
Pat