FC5->FC6T3 (DVD) upgrade dies. Time to consider test4? (Was: Yum upgrade?)

[Rahul]

alan wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
>>
>> Le Mar 19 septembre 2006 04:08, Mike Chambers a écrit :
>>> And from
>>> FC5 to rawhide is a supported upgrade and *is suppose* to work
>>
>> FCn to rawhide is always supposed to work, else there would be no way to
>> get testers on rawhide in the first place (all the maintainers who let 
>> the
>> devel version of their package bitrot should remember this)
>>
>> What's allways been officially non-supported is update from rawhide to
>> anything else (which is a shame)
> 
> Last night I tested the upgrade on an i386 based install of FC5 using 
> FC6t3.
> 
> Not good.
> 
> It gets to the part where it figures out what to upgrade and bjorks with 
> an exception on the package "system-config-mouse" claiming that it 
> contains an unknown header of "basepath".

Thats strange because system-config-mouse was dropped before FC5 release.

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#id2947593


> 
> The system has a bunch of packages from Core, Extras and Freshrpms.net. 
> It had just been upgraded from FC4 within the last week or so with no 
> problems.  All the updates were current. I have not tested what happens 
> if I remove that one package.

Can you check that?

Rahul