preupgrade - what would it take to provide packages for unsupported fedora releases ?

[Development discussions related to Fedora]

I thought I might try preupgrade out on Fedora Core 3:
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# rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
         python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
         yum >= 3.2.8 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
         yum-metadata-parser is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch

[root@f3 davidt]# rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm  --nodeps
Preparing...        ########################################### [100%]
    1:preupgrade     ########################################### [100%]

[root@f3 davidt]# preupgrade
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 23, in ?
     import preupgrade
ImportError: No module named preupgrade

[root@f3 davidt]# rpm -q python yum yum-metadata-parser
python-2.3.4-11
yum-2.1.11-3
package yum-metadata-parser is not installed
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Is there actually python 2.5 constructs used ?
Could it be built for an earlier release like fc3 ?

This would have to circumvent the maintained distributions policy, but
for good reason; weaning our upgrade adverse users off the no longer
maintained old F2,3,4,5,6 releases.

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 02:09 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>  I thought I might try preupgrade out on Fedora Core 3:
>  =====
>  # rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
>  error: Failed dependencies:
>           python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
>           yum >= 3.2.8 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
>           yum-metadata-parser is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
>  
>  [root@f3 davidt]# rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm  --nodeps
>  Preparing...        ########################################### [100%]
>      1:preupgrade     ########################################### [100%] 
Try rebuilding it in mock. You will probably have to create the config
file yourself, you can base it on existing ones.

Also newer yum might be needed, but maybe it can be also built on fc3.

-- 
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)

[Seth Vidal]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 02:09 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>  I thought I might try preupgrade out on Fedora Core 3:
>  =====
>  # rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
>  error: Failed dependencies:
>           python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
>           yum >= 3.2.8 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
>           yum-metadata-parser is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch
>  
>  [root@f3 davidt]# rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm  --nodeps
>  Preparing...        ########################################### [100%]
>      1:preupgrade     ########################################### [100%]
>  
>  [root@f3 davidt]# preupgrade
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 23, in ?
>       import preupgrade
>  ImportError: No module named preupgrade
>  
>  [root@f3 davidt]# rpm -q python yum yum-metadata-parser
>  python-2.3.4-11
>  yum-2.1.11-3
>  package yum-metadata-parser is not installed
>  =====
>  Is there actually python 2.5 constructs used ? 
no, but definitely python 2.4isms


>  Could it be built for an earlier release like fc3 ? 
no -
that's python 2.3 and too much pain.


>  This would have to circumvent the maintained distributions policy,
> but
>  for good reason; weaning our upgrade adverse users off the no longer
>  maintained old F2,3,4,5,6 releases. 
We have to let them go sometime, now is good.

-sv