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

[seth vidal]

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%]
> 
> [root at f3 davidt]# preupgrade
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 23, in ?
>      import preupgrade
> ImportError: No module named preupgrade
> 
> [root at f3 davidt]# rpm -q python yum yum-metadata-parser
> python-2.3.4-11
> yum-2.1.11-3
> package yum-metadata-parser is not installed
> =====
> Is there actually python 2.5 constructs used ?
no, but definitely python 2.4isms


> Could it be built for an earlier release like fc3 ?
no - that's python 2.3 and too much pain.


> This would have to circumvent the maintained distributions policy, but
> for good reason; weaning our upgrade adverse users off the no longer
> maintained old F2,3,4,5,6 releases.

We have to let them go sometime, now is good.

-sv