FC5->FC6T3 (DVD) upgrade dies. Time to consider test4? (Was: Yum upgrade?)

alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue Sep 19 16:05:17 UTC 2006


On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

>
> Le Mar 19 septembre 2006 04:08, Mike Chambers a écrit :
>> And from
>> FC5 to rawhide is a supported upgrade and *is suppose* to work
>
> FCn to rawhide is always supposed to work, else there would be no way to
> get testers on rawhide in the first place (all the maintainers who let the
> devel version of their package bitrot should remember this)
>
> What's allways been officially non-supported is update from rawhide to
> anything else (which is a shame)

Last night I tested the upgrade on an i386 based install of FC5 using 
FC6t3.

Not good.

It gets to the part where it figures out what to upgrade and bjorks with 
an exception on the package "system-config-mouse" claiming that it 
contains an unknown header of "basepath".

The system has a bunch of packages from Core, Extras and Freshrpms.net. 
It had just been upgraded from FC4 within the last week or so with no 
problems.  All the updates were current. I have not tested what happens if 
I remove that one package.

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