yum upgrade FC5->FC6 issues

[Jim Cornette]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Paul Lemmons wrote:
>> I am stepping out this time and trying to do the upgrade from FC5 to 
>> FC6 using yum upgrade and and having some minor (I hope) issues.
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> rpm -Uhv \
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm 
>> \
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm 
>>
>> And
>>
>> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
>>
>> To set the environment. When I run yum upgrade I get the following 
>> dependency errors:
>>
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libsepol - 1.12.27-1 is needed by package 
>> libsepol-devel
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1 is needed by 
>> package gtkhtml
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libttf.so.2 is needed by package VFlib2
>> Error: Missing Dependency: libgailutil.so.17 is needed by package 
>> compat-gtkhtml3
>>
>> Any pointers on what to do to resolve this would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> You might consider removing all these packages. They are legacy GNOME 
> 1.x stack which is not in FC6. libsepol-devel is not used in FC6 either.
> 
> Rahul
> 
  I ran into this problem with libsepol also today. I removed the db 
entry using rpm --justdb --nodeps for libsepol. After removing the 
database entry, I ran yum install libsepol which pulled in the glibc 
libraries.
Afterwards, yum -y update took care of the rest. (of course I ran from a 
terminal because the GUI is gonna get killed at some point during the 
upgrade. It did, But I was at the login screen, so it did not effect me 
being in runlevel 5)
  Using a terminal window in the GUI will leave you with about 1000 or 
so multiple entries in the database.
Removing mozilla with yum was also needed on the system which took out 
yelp and a few other packages which needed mozilla previously. You can 
add yelp back post upgrade without a lot of trouble.

Previously I thought of yum erase libsepol but it wanted to remove quite 
a few packages. I decided to do the above instead. I did not have errors 
when removing VFlib2 with rpm. It is not on FC6, so it will not 
reinstall. The other two errors listed did not effect my system.

Expect for this to take some time to complete. It took me about 3 hours 
on guess-timation I copied the DVD rpms over to the hard drive core 
repository, downloaded the updates and testing repos to their local 
repositories before upgrading. This was a one shot deal, no re-upgrading 
needed.


Jim


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