Advice to swithc to xorg from XFree86-4.3.0-59

[Harry Putnam]

Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> writes:


[...]

>> Any idea how I can fix that and get on trying the upgrade?
>
> Your setup looks extremely messy.

Very observant...
I've done everything but dump fresh garbage on it...

> Since you've manally changed /etc/fedora-release file - it was not
> updated (when you installed the new rpm) . You'll have to do something
> like:
>
> mv /etc/fedora-release.rpmnew  /etc/fedora-release

That file never appeared here, probably because I moved it or renamed
it before installing fedora-release from rawhide, so the pkg files
would have been renewed; but for good measure:

  cd /etc/
  rm *release*
  rm: remove regular file `fedora-release'? y
  rm: remove symbolic link `redhat-release'? y

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs \
/mnt/exp/fed2/RPMS/fedora-release-2-rawhide.noarch.rpm 

/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/file_contexts: No such
file or directory
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:fedora-release         ########################################### [100%]

cat /etc/fedora-release
  Fedora Core release Rawhide (Rawhide)

yum upgrade

  Unable to find pid
  Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
  Server: Rawhide Development
  Finding updated packages
  Downloading needed headers
  Finding obsoleted packages
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
      yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
    File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 260, in main
      obsoleting, obsoleted = clientStuff.returnObsoletes(HeaderInfo, rpmDBInfo, nulist)
    File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 286, in returnObsoletes
      rc = rpmUtils.compareEVR((e1, v1, r1), (obe, obv, obr))
    File "/usr/share/yum/rpmUtils.py", line 121, in compareEVR
      rc = rpm.labelCompare((e1, v1, r1), (e2, v2, r2))
  rpm.error: Invalid version or release - possibly None


> can you also do the following (and send the info)?

> rpm -q fedora-release

rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-2-rawhide

> rpm -V fedora-release

rpm -V fedora-release
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/file_contexts: No such
file or directory