Yum F9 --> F10, still old F9 packages

[Kam Leo]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Michael Wiktowy
<michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For reasons I don't entirely understand, neither preupgrade nor the DVD
>> worked for me, so I ended up upgrading from F9 to F10 by means of yum.
>
> Preupgrade worked for me on three out of three systems I've upgraded
> so far. So you must have something different that is tripping it up.
> It is very likely those stubborn packages you refer too.
>
>> Now I have enabled the rpmfusion repos, but I can't upgrade the relevent
>> packages from that repo as there is a dependency problem with the F9 version
>> of avidemux installed: an older x264 library. When I try to delete avidemux
>> using RPM, the latter hangs every time, and I have to kill it in a second
>> terminal.
>>
>> Any tricks for getting rid of stubborn old packages?
>>
>> The command 'package-cleanup --orphans' (from yum utils) indicates there are
>> a couple hundred fc9 packages still on my system, but doesn't offer a way of
>> removing them. Is there some other way of getting rid of them in one
>> operation?
>
> I am seeing the fc9 packages, but based on previous discussions, I
> believe it is (mostly) intentional. It is my understanding that if the
> package doesn't change between F9 and F10, they don't bother
> rebuilding the package if they don't have to. So it may be dangerous
> to indiscriminately remove every fc9 package.
>
> That reason likely doesn't cover all the fc9 packages on your systems
> still. There are a few other reasons I can think of:
> 1) The packages are for applications that no longer built for F10.
> Sometimes these unmaintained apps are worth keeping around if you need
> them. Often times there is a new substitute for them that doesn't
> strictly obsolete them.
> 2) Removal of the packages were blocked by a script error. I've had
> that happen for an old fc7 version of avahi and had to use the
> --noscripts option in rpm to remove it because it was blocking a 'yum
> update'.
>
> What I am trying to think of is a combination of repoquery/grep/diff
> commands that will give me a list of all the packages on my system
> that are not contained in the repos. That would at least separate out
> the legitimate fc9 packages from the cruft.
>

This subject has been discussed in a previous thread. Run
`package-cleanup --orphans' to find packages no longer resident in
enabled repositories.

>> Also, w.r.t rpmfusion, yum keeps quitting with an error message some but not
>> all of the time:
>>
>> "Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmfusion-free"
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this?

Yes.

> No ... could be a temporary Internet connectivity thing. But I would
> try reinstalling these two packages:
> rpmfusion-free-release.noarch                    10-1
> rpmfusion-nonfree-release.noarch                 10-1
>
> /Mike