Re: Preupgrade fc15->fc16

Tod Thomas <fr33zone@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:10:54 -0500



    On 02/20/2013 12:40 PM, Reindl Harald
      wrote:

    
Am 20.02.2013 18:35, schrieb Tod Thomas:

      
        I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and it went pretty well.  Now I am
trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16.  It looks like it can't find any of the
FC15 repos which is odd since FC14 went so well.  Should I expect this to work or is the FC15 release just too
old?  

      
      F16 is EOL now
F15 and F14 are EOL since a very long time


        Why did the FC14 upgrade go so well?

      
      luck by selected a mirror which not deleted the files


    As it turns out there are a lot of mirrors that have quite an
      extensive inventory of Fedora releases.  The trick is to find one
      and:

      
      - login as root

      - download the current releases.txt
    (http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt)

    -   hack it for the version you want to upgrade to, removing all
    others

        - comment out both the mirrorlist and installmirrorlist lines

        - insert baseurl and installurl lines pointing them to your
    mirror repo

    - run preupgrade (not preupgrad-cli)

    
    Here's my uncommented fc15->fc16 release.txt:

    
    [Fedora 16 (Verne)]

    stable=True

    preupgrade-ok=True

    version=16

baseurl=http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/

installurl=http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/

    
    Both my machines are rolled by hand.  I upgraded from fc14 on one
    machine and fc15 on another to fc16 without a problem.  It seems
    that preupgrade-cli doesn't read the releases.txt from the current
    directory (in my case root),  I'm  not sure that's consistent or an
    error on my part but running preupgrade worked fine.  I was kind of
    concerned reading all the problems with preupgrade but everything
    went without a problem.  I'll be trying fc16->fc17 if I can this
    weekend.

    
    Oh, and something reactived my Caps Lock key along the way.  Grrr :)

    
    - Tod

  
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