preupgrade - what would it take to provide packages for unsupported fedora releases ?

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 02:09 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> I thought I might try preupgrade out on Fedora Core 3:
> =====
> # rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
>          yum >= 3.2.8 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
>          yum-metadata-parser is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
> 
> [root at f3 davidt]# rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm  --nodeps
> Preparing...        ########################################### [100%]
>     1:preupgrade     ########################################### [100%]

Try rebuilding it in mock. You will probably have to create the config
file yourself, you can base it on existing ones.

Also newer yum might be needed, but maybe it can be also built on fc3.

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)