Looking for a preupgrade with Sulphur(F9) listed as an upgrade target?
May 13, 2008
If you’re looking for an rpm of preupgrade wit Fedora 9 as an upgrade target then look no further than here:
Enjoy.
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If you’re looking for an rpm of preupgrade wit Fedora 9 as an upgrade target then look no further than here:
Enjoy.
May 13, 2008 at 3:50 pm
is this a way to “yum upgrade” from FC8 to FC9?
May 13, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Thx, was loking for it😛
May 13, 2008 at 5:22 pm
An honest question….
From Red Hat 7 all the way to Fedora 8 I’ve always done a clean install. ( pain in the ass really, moving my data over ) The reason being is I’m thinking to myself ( coming from a windows world a long time ago ) that if i do an upgrade, a lot of unnecessary *stuff* from the previously installation will be left behind, albeit not used anymore.
Can someone please set me straight on this. Is the *cleanup* really that good that no useless files will be left behind?
If there is an *official* documentation regarding upgrades and “whats left behind” i’d really appreciate it.🙂
Thanks,
Fred
May 13, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Doesn’t work for me, sadly. After it downloads all the packages, it spits out:
Loading “presto” plugin
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for anaconda-upgrade
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for anaconda-upgrade
No package matched to remove
Downloading DeltaRPMs:
Rebuilding rpms from deltarpms
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py”, line 198, in on_assistant_apply
self._do_main()
File “/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py”, line 206, in _do_main
self.main_preupgrade()
File “/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py”, line 349, in main_preupgrade
self.pu.retrieve_treeinfo()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py”, line 381, in retrieve_treeinfo
cp.readfp(tif)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py”, line 286, in readfp
self._read(fp, filename)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py”, line 462, in _read
raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: , line: 2
‘<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”\n’
And just hangs there.😦 IIRC the text is “Downloading installer metadata” or something, can’t remember. I’ve ran GUI version twice, just running -cli to see what happens. Bugger.🙂
May 13, 2008 at 11:07 pm
0.9.3-2 is broken — it hangs at the last step per bug 446244. 0.9.3-3 is supposed to have the patch which fixes it.
May 14, 2008 at 4:47 pm
“package-config –orphans” from yum-utils will find leftovers. Usually it’s not very much. I’m usually more concerned about not getting some new stuff if I upgrade.
May 14, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Sprag rights
use this ver: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/preupgrade/0.9.3/3.fc8/noarch/preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc8.noarch.rpm
May 20, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Suggestions:
I run F7 64 bit. It isn’t clear if I preupgrade to Sulphur whether I’ll get a 64 bit OS. I have lotsa RAM and need all those bits.
Preupgrade doesn’t self-identify. A splash box would be informative and useful.
No man page.
It doesn’t seem to install itself into a menu, System Tools or System Administration would be useful.
Some indication of time needed with a cancellation option would be really handy.
A really good idea and would relieve one of the biggest impediments to me keeping up-to-date, many thanks.
Dave