Preupgrade problem

stan gryt2 at q.com
Wed Nov 10 19:33:14 UTC 2010


On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:05:11 -0600 (CST)
"Steve Berg" <sberg at mississippi.com> wrote:

> 
> > On 10/11/10 12:57, Steve Berg wrote:
> >> If preupgrade is smart enough to know that limitation once the
> >> upgrade starts, why isn't it smart enough to warn me about that
> >> before it downloads and sets everything up?

> There's no mention of that limitation anywhere I've seen so far.
> 
> >From the Fedora wiki:
> 
> Preupgrade provides an upgrade directly to the latest version of
> Fedora. It is not necessary to upgrade to intermediate versions. For
> example, it is possible to go from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 directly.
> 
> The wiki and preupgrade itself should warn users that a (ReleaseVer
> +2) upgrade is possible but (ReleaseVer +3) is not.

I think you're running into the problem that between F11 and F12, rpm
was modified in ways that weren't backward compatible.  So I suspect if
you upgrade to F12 from F11 it will take care of the incompatibility
and you will then be able to jump to F14 from F12.

Maybe you have to use the older version of preupgrade so it knows about
that change, the one that was released with F12?


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