On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 02:09 +1000, David Timms wrote: > I thought I might try preupgrade out on Fedora Core 3: > ===== > # rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch > yum >= 3.2.8 is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch > yum-metadata-parser is needed by preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch > > [root@f3 davidt]# rpm -Uvh preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.noarch.rpm --nodeps > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > 1:preupgrade ########################################### [100%] > > [root@f3 davidt]# preupgrade > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 23, in ? > import preupgrade > ImportError: No module named preupgrade > > [root@f3 davidt]# rpm -q python yum yum-metadata-parser > python-2.3.4-11 > yum-2.1.11-3 > package yum-metadata-parser is not installed > ===== > Is there actually python 2.5 constructs used ? no, but definitely python 2.4isms > Could it be built for an earlier release like fc3 ? no - that's python 2.3 and too much pain. > This would have to circumvent the maintained distributions policy, but > for good reason; weaning our upgrade adverse users off the no longer > maintained old F2,3,4,5,6 releases. We have to let them go sometime, now is good. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
