F14 to F15 upgrade issues

[Steven Stern]

On 05/25/2011 09:45 AM, jeff at bubble.org wrote:
> trying to upgrade from F14 to F15 on an x86_64 system.
>
> I've done the following:
> 1) yum install fedora-release-rawhide
> 2) yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide update
>
> after the second command I get some dependency problems due to having
> rpm-fusion repo installed, all the packages its complaining about are
> around the VLC package I installed -
>
> Error: Package: ffmpeg-libs-0.6.2-1.fc14.x86_64 (@rpmfusion-free-updates)
>             Requires: libopenjpeg.so.2()(64bit)
>             Removing: openjpeg-libs-1.3-10.fc14.x86_64 (@updates)
>                 libopenjpeg.so.2()(64bit)
>             Updated By: openjpeg-libs-1.4-6.fc16.x86_64 (rawhide)
>                 Not found
> Error: Package: vlc-core-1.1.9-1.fc14.x86_64 (@rpmfusion-free-updates)
>             Requires: libmatroska.so.2()(64bit)
>             Removing: libmatroska-1.0.0-1.fc14.x86_64 (@fedora)
>                 libmatroska.so.2()(64bit)
>             Updated By: libmatroska-1.1.0-1.fc16.x86_64 (rawhide)
>                 Not found
> Error: Package: vlc-core-1.1.9-1.fc14.x86_64 (@rpmfusion-free-updates)
>             Requires: libebml.so.2()(64bit)
>             Removing: libebml-1.0.0-1.fc14.x86_64 (@fedora)
>                 libebml.so.2()(64bit)
>             Updated By: libebml-1.2.0-1.fc16.x86_64 (rawhide)
>                 Not found
>
>
> ok, no big deal I'll just skip the broken with:
>
> yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide --skip-broken update
> I then proceed to download almost 700MB of data and I get the following
> error:
>
> Running Transaction Test
>
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>    file /usr/share/man/man1/dtrace.1.gz from install of
> systemtap-sdt-devel-1.5-1.fc16.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> systemtap-1.4-2.fc14.x86_64
>
> Error Summary
> -------------
>
>
> and everything stops at this point, suggestions for a work-around?
>
> Thanks, Jeff
>


Too late now, but the proper choice was:

    yum install preupgrade
    preupgrade

       some time later....

    reboot

       some time later....

    login to fedora 15

I know this doesn't answer your question, but I'm posting it for anyone 
else who might be considering the path you took.

-- 
-- Steve