yum upgrade FC5->FC6 issues

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: yum upgrade FC5->FC6 issues
From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: 10/26/2006 03:10 PM

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  I ran into this problem with libsepol also today. I removed the db 
> entry using rpm --justdb --nodeps for libsepol. After removing the 
> database entry, I ran yum install libsepol which pulled in the glibc 
> libraries.
> Afterwards, yum -y update took care of the rest. (of course I ran from a 
> terminal because the GUI is gonna get killed at some point during the 
> upgrade. It did, But I was at the login screen, so it did not effect me 
> being in runlevel 5)
>  Using a terminal window in the GUI will leave you with about 1000 or so 
> multiple entries in the database.
> Removing mozilla with yum was also needed on the system which took out 
> yelp and a few other packages which needed mozilla previously. You can 
> add yelp back post upgrade without a lot of trouble.
> 
> Previously I thought of yum erase libsepol but it wanted to remove quite 
> a few packages. I decided to do the above instead. I did not have errors 
> when removing VFlib2 with rpm. It is not on FC6, so it will not 
> reinstall. The other two errors listed did not effect my system.
> 
> Expect for this to take some time to complete. It took me about 3 hours 
> on guess-timation I copied the DVD rpms over to the hard drive core 
> repository, downloaded the updates and testing repos to their local 
> repositories before upgrading. This was a one shot deal, no re-upgrading 
> needed.
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
> 

I was really trying hard not to muck with the integrity of the rpm 
database. I always assume that if I have been a good boy and not mucked 
with it it knows more than I do.

So, I started looking for why libsepol-devel kept reappearing. I ran the 
"yum upgrade" again and captured the output so I could look at it. (i.e. 
yum upgrade | tee upgrade.log). I found that libselinux-devel was 
calling for it. I then yum removed libselinux-devel and all of the 
problems went away.

I will muck with the repository when I have to but it is only after a 
lot of research and determining that it is my only choice.
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