Extra Extra read all about it - Preupgrade released....

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg <at> hi.is> writes:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade
> 
> Will and Seth anything you would like to add to testers?
> [...]

Got a bug too!!!  :-D

Does preupgrade work behind a proxy server?

  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 196, in on_assistant_apply
    self._do_main()
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 204, in _do_main
    self.main_preupgrade()
  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 316, in main_preupgrade
    installed_pkgcount = len(self.pu.doPackageLists().installed)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1141, in
doPackageLists
    avail = self.pkgSack.returnNewestByNameArch()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 529, in <lambda>
    pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 384, in _getSacks
    self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 242, in populateSack
    sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 142, in populate
    if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 199, in
_check_db_version
    if repo.repoXML.repoData.has_key(mdtype):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 774, in <lambda>
    repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 770, in _getRepoXML
    raise Errors.RepoError, msg
yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
repository: anaconda-upgrade. Please verify its path and try again