preupgrade problem

[Adam Pribyl]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Running preupgrade on a Fedora-9 system
> gives me the following error:
> ---------------------------------------------
> [tim at alfred ~]$ sudo preupgrade
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> No package matched to remove
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 198, in on_assistant_apply
>    self._do_main()
>  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 206, in _do_main
>    self.main_preupgrade()
>  File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 349, in main_preupgrade
>    self.pu.retrieve_treeinfo()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 395, in retrieve_treeinfo
>    self.instimage = cp.get('stage2', 'instimage')
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 520, in get
>    raise NoOptionError(option, section)
> ConfigParser.NoOptionError: No option 'instimage' in section: 'stage2'
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> It is quite possible that I omitted some vital step.
> Any advice or suggestions welcome.

I think this is and old version of preupgrade. Use the one from 
updates-testing.

Adam Pribyl