moving a fedora 7 to rawhide

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > --- John Summerfield
> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > John
> > > 
> > > -- spambait
> > > 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu 
> > > Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu
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> > > 
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> > > 
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> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > So far so good except the following:
> > 
> > I can login as regular user, but startx does not
> > work
> > :(
> > 
> > Several updates fail, but I guess they are
> workable
> > 
> > [root at localhost ~]# yum clean metadata
> > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> > 0 metadata files removed
> > 0 sqlite files removed
> > 0 metadata files removed
> > [root at localhost ~]# yum update
> > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> > rawhide                   100%
> > |=========================| 2.4 kB    00:00
> > primary.sqlite.bz2          1% |                  
>  
> >  
> >   |  72 kB    00:27 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         
> > 5%
> > |=                        | 344 kB    00:22
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         10% |==             
>  
> >  
> >      | 640 kB    00:18 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2      
>  
> > 15% |===                      | 944 kB    00:15
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         20% |=====          
>  
> >  
> >      | 1.2 MB    00:12 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2      
>  
> > 25% |======                   | 1.5 MB    00:10
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         29% |=======        
>  
> >  
> >      | 1.8 MB    00:09 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2      
>  
> > 34% |========                 | 2.1 MB    00:08
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         39% |=========      
>  
> >  
> >      | 2.4 MB    00:07 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2      
>  
> > 44% |===========              | 2.7 MB    00:06
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         49% |============   
>  
> >  
> >      | 3.0 MB    00:05 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2      
>  
> > 54% |=============            | 3.3 MB    00:04
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         59% |============== 
>  
> >  
> >      | 3.6 MB    00:04 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2      
>  
> > 64% |================         | 3.9 MB    00:03
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         69%
> |=================
> >  
> >      | 4.2 MB    00:02 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2      
>  
> > 73% |==================       | 4.5 MB    00:02
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         78%
> > |===================
> >      | 4.8 MB    00:01 ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2      
>  
> > 83% |====================     | 5.1 MB    00:01
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         88%
> > |======================   | 5.4 MB    00:00
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         93%
> > |=======================  | 5.7 MB    00:00
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2         98%
> > |======================== | 6.0 MB    00:00
> > ETAprimary.sqlite.bz2        100%
> > |=========================| 6.1 MB    00:06
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Resolving Dependencies
> > --> Running transaction check
> > ---> Package system-config-firewall.noarch
> > 0:1.2.7-1.fc9 set to be updated
> > ---> Package mikmod.i386 0:3.2.2-8.beta1.fc9 set
> to
> > be
> > updated
> > ---> Package crystalsvg-icon-theme.i386
> 
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Dear all,

most of the hard work is done, little things need to
be fixed.  Firefox beta is not working well, 

duplicates were removed using David's script /.rmdup

Here's what was done to get the conflicts resolved.

http://www.geocities.com/olivares14031/fc72rawhide.htm

Regards,

Antonio 


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