moving a fedora 7 to rawhide
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 5 00:03:27 UTC 2008
--- John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear folks,
> >
> > since Fedora 7 is slowly passing away, support is
> > ending EOL, I decided to update it to rawhide,
> since
> > Fedora 8 is not what I wanted to update it to.
> >
> > I downloaded the fedora-release-8.92 rpm and
> installed
> > it and the fedora-notes which was a prerequisite
> for
> > fedora-release then I disabled fedora repo and
> enabled
> > development repo and on the journey begins.
> >
> > I am following the advice from
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing
> >
> > I have encountered a few issues, namely the kernel
> > does not boot --??185. I have to boot to
> 2.6.23.15??
>
> As usual, a dearth of information. What hardware?
> What kernel? What
> symptoms?
>
>
> > only since the machine only boots two kernels I
> have
> > to resort to booting it. A few conflicts here and
> > there, Is there a cleanup script that checks for
> fc7
> > rpms and deletes them and finds corresponding fc9
> > rpms?
>
> I wouldn't expect one; if Anaconda and yum don't do
> it, you're pretty
> much Pat Malone.
> This will give some clues as to what's obsolete:
>
> rpm -qa --last | less
>
> As for suitable replacements, it's like beauty.
>
>
> >
> > I know that updating a dying Fedora 7 to rawhide
> is
> > not recommended, but I said what the heck, if I
> get
> > burned, I'll just get Fedora-9-Beta media and
> install
> > from there. I just want a script if it exists and
> try
> > to sort things out and hopefully make the machine
> boot
> > into the newer kernels and get going from there.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> -- spambait
> 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu
> Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu
> -- Advice
> http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
>
> You cannot reply off-list:-)
>
> --
> fedora-test-list mailing list
> fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe:
>
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
>
So far so good except the following:
I can login as regular user, but startx does not work
:(
Several updates fail, but I guess they are workable
[root at localhost ~]# yum clean metadata
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
0 metadata files removed
0 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed
[root at localhost ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
rawhide 100%
|=========================| 2.4 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 1% |
| 72 kB 00:27 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 5%
|= | 344 kB 00:22
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 10% |==
| 640 kB 00:18 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
15% |=== | 944 kB 00:15
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 20% |=====
| 1.2 MB 00:12 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
25% |====== | 1.5 MB 00:10
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 29% |=======
| 1.8 MB 00:09 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
34% |======== | 2.1 MB 00:08
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 39% |=========
| 2.4 MB 00:07 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
44% |=========== | 2.7 MB 00:06
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 49% |============
| 3.0 MB 00:05 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
54% |============= | 3.3 MB 00:04
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 59% |==============
| 3.6 MB 00:04 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
64% |================ | 3.9 MB 00:03
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 69% |=================
| 4.2 MB 00:02 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
73% |================== | 4.5 MB 00:02
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 78% |===================
| 4.8 MB 00:01 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2
83% |==================== | 5.1 MB 00:01
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 88%
|====================== | 5.4 MB 00:00
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 93%
|======================= | 5.7 MB 00:00
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 98%
|======================== | 6.0 MB 00:00
ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2 100%
|=========================| 6.1 MB 00:06
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package system-config-firewall.noarch
0:1.2.7-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package mikmod.i386 0:3.2.2-8.beta1.fc9 set to be
updated
---> Package crystalsvg-icon-theme.i386 0:4.0.3-3.fc9
set to be updated
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-geode.i386 0:2.8.0-2.fc9 set
to be updated
---> Package firstboot.i386 0:1.95-2.fc9 set to be
updated
--> Processing Dependency: libuser-python for package:
firstboot
---> Package upstart.i386 0:0.3.9-14.fc9 set to be
updated
---> Package neon.i386 0:0.28.2-2 set to be updated
---> Package xdvik.i386 0:22.84.13-17.fc9 set to be
updated
---> Package system-config-firewall-tui.noarch
0:1.2.7-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package pulseaudio-esound-compat.i386
0:0.9.10-1.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: pulseaudio = 0.9.10-1.fc9
for package: pulseaudio-esound-compat
---> Package system-config-users.noarch 0:1.2.78-1.fc9
set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libuser-python.i386 0:0.56.8-1 set to be
updated
---> Package pulseaudio.i386 0:0.9.10-1.fc9 set to be
updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
firstboot i386 1.95-2.fc9
rawhide 168 k
replacing firstboot-tui.noarch 1.4.35-1.fc7
pulseaudio-esound-compat i386 0.9.10-1.fc9
rawhide 11 k
replacing esound.i386 1:0.2.38-2.fc7
system-config-firewall noarch 1.2.7-1.fc9
rawhide 501 k
replacing system-config-securitylevel.i386
1.7.0-6.fc7
system-config-firewall-tui noarch 1.2.7-1.fc9
rawhide 478 k
replacing system-config-securitylevel-tui.i386
1.7.0-6.fc7
xdvik i386 22.84.13-17.fc9
rawhide 685 k
replacing tetex-xdvi.i386 3.0-40.5.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-geode i386 2.8.0-2.fc9
rawhide 132 k
replacing xorg-x11-drv-amd.i386
0.0-22.20070625.fc7
Updating:
crystalsvg-icon-theme i386 4.0.3-3.fc9
rawhide 10 M
mikmod i386 3.2.2-8.beta1.fc9
rawhide 98 k
neon i386 0.28.2-2
rawhide 118 k
system-config-users noarch 1.2.78-1.fc9
rawhide 586 k
upstart i386 0.3.9-14.fc9
rawhide 240 k
Installing for dependencies:
libuser-python i386 0.56.8-1
rawhide 49 k
pulseaudio i386 0.9.10-1.fc9
rawhide 361 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 8 Package(s)
Update 5 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 14 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
**** stuff deleted ****
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
libneon.so.25 is needed by (installed)
cadaver-0.22.5-2.i386
libmikmod.so.2 is needed by (installed)
xmms-libs-1.2.10-36.fc7.i386
Complete!
[root at localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain
2.6.25-0.195.rc8.git1.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu Apr 3
09:42:34 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at localhost ~]#
As of right now, I am doing:
[root at localhost ~]# rpm -e
xmms-libs-1.2.10-36.fc7.i386
[root at localhost ~]# rpm -e cadaver-0.22.5-2.i386
will do this
rpm -qa --last | less
afterwards
Thanks,
Antonio
____________________________________________________________________________________
You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.
http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com
More information about the fedora-test-list
mailing list