[ATrpms-users] FC5 to FC8 upgrade attempt

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but my attempted
yum upgrade of my FC5 system to FC8 is snagged 3 or 4  dependancy
errors, listed below (3 of them from ATRPMs).

Initially, I started by installing the fedora-release-8 RPM, then I
tried "yum upgrade".  It failed.  so, I installed a whole bunch of F8
RPMS by hand.  I ran "yum check-update" to get a list of what needed
updating.  then I started the long tedious updating process (took me 3-4
days of off and on updating).  I think about 1/3 to 1/2 of the RPMS got
updated to FC8.  The ones that didn't were dependent upon either Python
or Perl and had quite the complicated dependency tree.  I was unable to
update RPM, YUM, Perl, Python, X, or the kernel.  My attempt to install
the kernel RPM by hand resulted in a mkinitrd dependency, which resulted
in a Python dependency, which ....  So, I started looking into the
failed packages in the final yum upgrade report.  I ended up removing a
whole bunch of packages which I can either re-install or I don't really
need (including mythmusic), and I've ended up with the 4 errors listed
below:

[dependency checking removed]
> --> Running transaction check
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 is needed by package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 is needed by package video4linux-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 is needed by package lirc-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5
> Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Error: Package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 needs /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5, this is not available.
> Error: Package kmod-nvidia needs kernel-i686 = 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5, this is not available.
> Error: Package video4linux-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 needs /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5, this is not available.
> Error: Package lirc-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 needs /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5, this is not available.

Amazing!  why are the fc5 kmdls (and the Livna kmod-nvidia) holding up
my upgrade?  each kernel module is listed in yum.conf as:

installonlypkgs="kernel,ivtv-kmdl,lirc-kmdl,video4linux-kmdl,kmod-nvidia"

Why are they trying to be upgraded?  Shouldn't the new versions just be
installed with the new kernel?

So, I tried a different tact, I booted the F8 i386 install DVD, and
attempted an UPGRADE.  I got 99% of the way through the depsolver in
about 1 hour, 1 hour later it still had not moved any further.  I think
I was bitten by the yumloop bug that was bugzilla-ed.  So, I read
through the bug report, and tried the suggested fix using an update.img
from JKatz.  No dice, Anaconda dies right after I select the UPGRADE
button.  I attached my Anaconda dump to the bugzilla report.

Now, back to my current problem.  Why can't I "upgrade" my FC5 to F8 via
yum.  Everything else seems to be ready to upgrade.  What's holding
these 4 kernel modules back.  I'm hoping its something simple I've
either missed or forgotten to do.  If I can at least solve the 3 ATRPMs
kmdls I'm willing to uninstall the nvidia stuff and re-install it after
complete the upgrade.  Do I need to do this with IVTV/LIRC/VIDEO4LINUX
modules also????

My system is quite the interesting Frankensystem right now.  A mix of
roughly equal numbers of FC5 and FC8 RPMS.   B^)  I was even able to
reboot it back up after failing the DVD upgrade.  Everything came back
up, apache, sendmail (and its milters), ntp, mythtv, etc.

What a mess F8 is.  I blame it on the short 6 month development cycle.
(Even with the extra testing release.)

Any ideas?   [I had similar problems with my FC3 to FC5 upgrade, but the
CD upgrade to FC5 ended up being successfuly.]

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)