moving a fedora 7 to rawhide

[John Summerfield]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear folks,
> 
> since Fedora 7 is slowly passing away, support is
> ending EOL, I decided to update it to rawhide, since
> Fedora 8 is not what I wanted to update it to.  
> 
> I downloaded the fedora-release-8.92 rpm and installed
> it and the fedora-notes which was a prerequisite for
> fedora-release then I disabled fedora repo and enabled
> development repo and on the journey begins. 
> 
> I am following the advice from 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing
> 
> I have encountered a few issues, namely the kernel
> does not boot --??185.  I have to boot to 2.6.23.15??

As usual, a dearth of information. What hardware? What kernel? What 
symptoms?


> only since the machine only boots two kernels I have
> to resort to booting it.  A few conflicts here and
> there, Is there a cleanup script that checks for fc7
> rpms and deletes them and finds corresponding fc9
> rpms?

I wouldn't expect one; if Anaconda and yum don't do it, you're pretty 
much Pat Malone.
This will give some clues as to what's obsolete:

rpm -qa --last | less

As for suitable replacements, it's like beauty.


> 
> I know that updating a dying Fedora 7 to rawhide is
> not recommended, but I said what the heck, if I get
> burned, I'll just get Fedora-9-Beta media and install
> from there.  I just want a script if it exists and try
> to sort things out and hopefully make the machine boot
> into the newer kernels and get going from there.  



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