f13 => rawhide upgrade notes
 

Since there is so much that's going to be new in Fedora 15 compared to
Fedora 14 (GNOME 3, GTK+-3, systemd, NetworkManager-0.9, and so on), the
Red Hat desktop team wanted to get an early start on running the new
stuff even before Fedora 14 is out.

So, I spent a few hours last night and this morning upgrading my primary
laptop from Fedora 13 to Rawhide. Generally worked better than I might
have expected... without too much work I got to a system that seems
basically usable.

One big caveat is that the result of a F14 => rawhide upgrade is a messy
hybrid -

$ rpm -qa | grep fc14 | wc -l
631
$ rpm -qa | grep fc15 | wc -l
701

It's not nearly a pure F15 system yet.

So, I thought I should dump out notes of the procedure I used and a few
snags I hit to help anybody else on the same path.

Upgrade procedure
=================

Step 1: Used preupgrade to upgrade from f13 to f14
Worked apparently perfectly, very slick experience

(Only real wart was that for encrypted root Anaconda has a
"Enter passphrase to decrypt" [ ] This is a global passphrase"
dialog, and the "global passphrase" thing is pretty hard to
understand. "Use this passphrase for all partitions" ? Or just
try it on the other partitions and ask me then if it
didn't work?)

Step 2: Installed fedora-release-rawhide, disabled f14, enabled rawhide

Step 3: Switched to a VT and ran 'yum update --skip-broken'

(I actually first tried 'telinit 3' and that didn't work right - the
GNOME session was left up, VT's were gone, and the system hung when
I then tried to reboot. Wonder if something got broken with the
upstart => systemd => upstart adventure>)

I had to remove a handful of various packages to get this to work,
but I think they were all local builds or stuff I installed from 3rd
party repositories.

Step 4: reboot

Things were mostly working at this point,

Fixing the result
=================

* I was left without a link from /usr/bin/emacs-<version>
to /usr/bin/emacs, so I had to create that manually.

* gtk3-engines didn't get installed on the upgrade, so I had
to install that manually.

* The GTK+ 3 module for ibus seems to be more or less broken.
I had to remove ibus to get gtk3 applications to run without
crashing. (Setting /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk-im-module
to gtk-im-context-simple might have work, but didn't
immediately seem to for some reason, and I needed to get to
a less crashy state.)

* Accessibility modules were producing a ton of bad looking spew
and dconf-editor had a gail/treeview related crash. I couldn't
figure out if there is a way of turning off accessibility
entirely through the new control center, so I turned off
/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility. Strangely I had to
log out and log in before GTK+ apps stopped loading the
accessibility modules. g-s-d bug?

* All outgoing ssh was hanging - turned out that gnome-keyring-prompt
was hanging weirdly inside g_once_enter_init(); when I finally
saw stderr, it was obviously a need for a rebuild because of
struct size changes in gtk3. So, fired off a rebuild of
gnome-keyring in koji.

Also noted:

'killall gnome-settings-daemon' kills nm-applet, and leaves it in a
state where it doesn't recover even after restarting g-s-d, until
you log out and log back in. Weird.



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f13 => rawhide upgrade notes
 

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On 09/25/2010 10:55 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:
> One big caveat is that the result of a F14 => rawhide upgrade is a messy
> hybrid -
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep fc14 | wc -l
> 631
> $ rpm -qa | grep fc15 | wc -l
> 701

This isn't a reasonable measurement. A significant amount of builds in
rawhide are inherited from Fedora 14 (and earlier). There is expected
to be a high number of packages with .fc14 or .fc13/12/11 in rawhide at
this time.

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f13 => rawhide upgrade notes
 

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 12:47 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On 09/25/2010 10:55 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > One big caveat is that the result of a F14 => rawhide upgrade is a messy
> > hybrid -
> >
> > $ rpm -qa | grep fc14 | wc -l
> > 631
> > $ rpm -qa | grep fc15 | wc -l
> > 701
>
> This isn't a reasonable measurement. A significant amount of builds in
> rawhide are inherited from Fedora 14 (and earlier). There is expected
> to be a high number of packages with .fc14 or .fc13/12/11 in rawhide at
> this time.
>

Also - if you want to see from where a package was installed run:

yum list installed

and look at the last column

the name following the @ is the repo it was installed from.

the yumdb also contains more verbose info as to which release of the
fedora repo it was installed using.

-sv


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