On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Colin Brace <cb@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> For reasons I don't entirely understand, neither preupgrade nor the DVD >> worked for me, so I ended up upgrading from F9 to F10 by means of yum. > > Preupgrade worked for me on three out of three systems I've upgraded > so far. So you must have something different that is tripping it up. > It is very likely those stubborn packages you refer too. > >> Now I have enabled the rpmfusion repos, but I can't upgrade the relevent >> packages from that repo as there is a dependency problem with the F9 version >> of avidemux installed: an older x264 library. When I try to delete avidemux >> using RPM, the latter hangs every time, and I have to kill it in a second >> terminal. >> >> Any tricks for getting rid of stubborn old packages? >> >> The command 'package-cleanup --orphans' (from yum utils) indicates there are >> a couple hundred fc9 packages still on my system, but doesn't offer a way of >> removing them. Is there some other way of getting rid of them in one >> operation? > > I am seeing the fc9 packages, but based on previous discussions, I > believe it is (mostly) intentional. It is my understanding that if the > package doesn't change between F9 and F10, they don't bother > rebuilding the package if they don't have to. So it may be dangerous > to indiscriminately remove every fc9 package. > > That reason likely doesn't cover all the fc9 packages on your systems > still. There are a few other reasons I can think of: > 1) The packages are for applications that no longer built for F10. > Sometimes these unmaintained apps are worth keeping around if you need > them. Often times there is a new substitute for them that doesn't > strictly obsolete them. > 2) Removal of the packages were blocked by a script error. I've had > that happen for an old fc7 version of avahi and had to use the > --noscripts option in rpm to remove it because it was blocking a 'yum > update'. > > What I am trying to think of is a combination of repoquery/grep/diff > commands that will give me a list of all the packages on my system > that are not contained in the repos. That would at least separate out > the legitimate fc9 packages from the cruft. > This subject has been discussed in a previous thread. Run `package-cleanup --orphans' to find packages no longer resident in enabled repositories. >> Also, w.r.t rpmfusion, yum keeps quitting with an error message some but not >> all of the time: >> >> "Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmfusion-free" >> >> Anyone else seeing this? Yes. > No ... could be a temporary Internet connectivity thing. But I would > try reinstalling these two packages: > rpmfusion-free-release.noarch 10-1 > rpmfusion-nonfree-release.noarch 10-1 > > /Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
