FedUp experiences; moving to an F18 life.

[Max Pyziur]

Greetings,

Currently, I'm on my third F18 experience:

Experience #1 - off-lease Dell D630 dual-core laptop w/ no pre-installed 
OS, installed from DVD. The installation went smoothly; the issues that 
remain are getting co-ordinated postgis 2.0/postgresql 9.2 packages, and 
some Xfce UI considerations (the former means that there is a frail 
eco-system for working on F18 PostGIS 2.0 things, while the latter is an 
RTFM thing).

Experience #2 - upgrade creaky and (relatively) slow Dell 600m Inspiron 
Laptop from F17 to F18. FedUp worked smoothly, but since this was over a 
DSL network connection, it took some time. Same outstanding issues as #1 
(PostGIS/GDAL/Postgresql software ecosystem is shaky in F18; and UI Xfce 
annoyances).

Experience #3 - upgrade a home-assembled dual core box from F17 to F18 
using FedUp.

After issueing the following command:
fedup-cli --network 18 --debuglog /var/log/fedupdebug.log

The following burp showed up:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/bin/fedup-cli", line 330, in <module>
     main(args)
   File "/bin/fedup-cli", line 275, in main
     pkgs = download_packages(f)
   File "/bin/fedup-cli", line 57, in download_packages
     updates = 
f.build_update_transaction(callback=output.DepsolveCallback(f))
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fedup/download.py", line 185, in 
build_update_transaction
     (rv, msgs) = 
self.buildTransaction(unfinished_transactions_check=False)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1124, in 
buildTransaction
     (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 897, in 
resolveDeps
     (checkdep, errormsgs) = self._processConflict(*conflict)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 759, in 
_processConflict
     self._dscb_procConflict(po, niceformatneed)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 745, in 
_dscb_procConflict
     self.dsCallback.procConflictPo(po, niceformatneed)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fedup/callback.py", line 142, in 
procConflictPo
     self.log.debug('CONFLICT: %s → %s', po, formatted_conflict)
NameError: global name 'po' is not defined


General guidence in remarks retrieved Google say to wait for the FedUp
upgrade, which is in testing, from fedup-0.7.2-1.fc17.noarch to

Comments were found here:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/3519/error-update-from-fedora-17-to-fedora-18-via-fedup

The latest Fedup in F17 test is:
fedup-0.7.3-0.git20130128.fc17.noarch.rpm	56.6 kB	1/31/13 11:37:00am

Checking koji for project status, I see:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=381043

Any further guidence from other users?

Much thanks,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com