Live upgrade from FC5 to FC6 successful, FC7 next

[Paul Smith]

On 6/7/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, Jonathan. With your procedure, I get the following errors:
> >
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libparted-1.8.so.2 is needed by package pyparted
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.7 is needed by package gstreamer08-plugins
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libedataserver-1.2.so.7 is needed by package pidgin
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.3 is needed by package php-cli
> > Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/python2.4 is needed by package PIL
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libpython2.4.so.1.0 is needed by package graphviz
> > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package PIL
> > Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.3 is needed by package yelp
> > Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.3 is needed by package devhelp
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.3 is needed by package xine
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.3 is needed by package gnupg2
> > Error: Missing Dependency: python-abi = 2.4 is needed by package smart
> > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package smart-gui
> > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package tovid
> > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package smart
> > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package pyparted
> > Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package Numeric
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.3 is needed by package php
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> For most of these, the solution is to remove the packages (namely PIL,
> smart, smart-gui, tovid, pyparted, gstreamer08-plugins and Numeric).
>
> I'm not sure why you're hitting the gecko-libs problems for yelp and
> dev-help.
>
> The main point I'm making is that if you are doing "yum upgrade",
> yum-presto will reduce the amount of bandwidth you have to download.
> The missing dependencies you've listed will still be missing if you
> don't use yum-presto.  I'm afraid I'm not expert enough in the ins and
> outs of doing a distribution upgrade to help much beyond that.

Thanks again, Jonathan, for your explanation.

Paul