Updating from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13

[anyweb]

today I decided to upgrade from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 to see what the new release was like,

 

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to do so I did as follows

 

open a console and logged in as root

 

Code:

su -

 

then downloaded two Fedora 13 release files needed for the next step

 

Code:

wget ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-13-3.fc13.noarch.rpm

and

 

Code:

wget ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm

 

then

 

Code:

rpm -Uvh fedora-release-notes-13-3.fc13.noarch.rpm fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm

once done

 

do

 

Code:

yum clean all

yum update

 

this takes a while, i had 1130 packages to update

 

(1123/1130): ypbind-1.31-2.fc13.i686.rpm | 47 kB 00:00

(1124/1130): yum-3.2.27-4.fc13.noarch.rpm | 846 kB 00:01

(1125/1130): yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-1.fc13.i686.rpm | 25 kB 00:00

(1126/1130): yum-utils-1.1.26-7.fc13.noarch.rpm | 78 kB 00:00

(1127/1130): zbar-0.10-2.fc13.i686.rpm | 122 kB 00:00

(1128/1130): zd1211-firmware-1.4-4.fc13.noarch.rpm | 22 kB 00:00

(1129/1130): zenity-2.30.0-1.fc13.i686.rpm | 2.7 MB 00:03

(1130/1130): zip-3.0-1.fc13.i686.rpm | 246 kB 00:00

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

answer yes to the new signatures...

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID e8e40fde

updates/gpgkey | 3.2 kB 00:00 ...

Importing GPG key 0xE8E40FDE "Fedora (13) <fedora@fedoraproject.org>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Is this ok [y/N]: y

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID a3780952

rpmfusion-free/gpgkey | 3.3 kB 00:00 ...

Importing GPG key 0xA3780952 "RPM Fusion free repository for Fedora (13) <rpmfusion-buildsys@lists.rpmfusion.org>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-13-i386

Is this ok [y/N]: y

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID 2425b284

rpmfusion-nonfree/gpgkey | 3.4 kB 00:00 ...

Importing GPG key 0x2425B284 "RPM Fusion nonfree repository for Fedora (13) <rpmfusion-buildsys@lists.rpmfusion.org>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-13-i386

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Running rpm_check_debug

Running Transaction Test

 

 

 

and after the update

 

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora release 13 (Goddard)

 

cool ! and easy

 

i'll post some screenshots later today

[anyweb]

heres my laptop running Fedora 12

 

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and here it is running Fedora 13

 

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[Dungeon-Dave]

Any major differences you've noticed?

[anyweb]

actually no, apart from Firefox looking different, it feels much the same as it did probably because I had F12 totally up to date, or maybe i just havn't explored enough yet

[Dungeon-Dave]

I'm guessing a totally-up-to-date v12 is pretty identical to a "just released v13"!

 

Was wondering if there's anything more changed with udev, disk IDs, boot loader (Ubuntu now uses grub2), etc.

[hybrid]

I'm guessing a totally-up-to-date v12 is pretty identical to a "just released v13"!

 

It seems that is 'the deal' when it comes to Fedora. I used it quite extensively a few years ago -- you got so many package upgrades you always knew you were on the bleeding edge, but that also meant you didn't get nice packages of new features when a new release came about. Admittedly, I haven't used it extensively for some time.

[YeOK]

Hello guys, how are you all doing ?

 

Anyway, I upgraded to Fedora 13 from 12 but instead of using yum I actually made use of a Fedora tool called preupgrade. It is very easy to use,

 

Code:

# yum update
# yum install preupgrade python-urlgrabber
# preupgrade

 

You will get a gui (cli version available), it downloads the required files, asks you to reboot, then you install from anaconda. Maybe worth a try.

 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade

 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade

[anyweb]

interesting, next time Fedora is released i will give that tool a try and report back, thanks for the info

[fraunthall]

today I decided to upgrade from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 to see what the new release was like,

 

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to do so I did as follows

 

open a console and logged in as root

 

Code:

su -

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then downloaded two Fedora 13 release files needed for the next step

 

Code:

wget ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-13-3.fc13.noarch.rpm

and

 

Code:

wget ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm

 

then

 

Code:

rpm -Uvh fedora-release-notes-13-3.fc13.noarch.rpm fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm

once done

 

do

 

Code:

yum clean all

yum update

 

this takes a while, i had 1130 packages to update

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(1123/1130): ypbind-1.31-2.fc13.i686.rpm | 47 kB 00:00

(1124/1130): yum-3.2.27-4.fc13.noarch.rpm | 846 kB 00:01

(1125/1130): yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-1.fc13.i686.rpm | 25 kB 00:00

(1126/1130): yum-utils-1.1.26-7.fc13.noarch.rpm | 78 kB 00:00

(1127/1130): zbar-0.10-2.fc13.i686.rpm | 122 kB 00:00

(1128/1130): zd1211-firmware-1.4-4.fc13.noarch.rpm | 22 kB 00:00

(1129/1130): zenity-2.30.0-1.fc13.i686.rpm | 2.7 MB 00:03

(1130/1130): zip-3.0-1.fc13.i686.rpm | 246 kB 00:00

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

answer yes to the new signatures...

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID e8e40fde

updates/gpgkey | 3.2 kB 00:00 ...

Importing GPG key 0xE8E40FDE "Fedora (13) <fedora@fedoraproject.org>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Is this ok [y/N]: y

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID a3780952

rpmfusion-free/gpgkey | 3.3 kB 00:00 ...

Importing GPG key 0xA3780952 "RPM Fusion free repository for Fedora (13) <rpmfusion-buildsys@lists.rpmfusion.org>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-13-i386

Is this ok [y/N]: y

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID 2425b284

rpmfusion-nonfree/gpgkey | 3.4 kB 00:00 ...

Importing GPG key 0x2425B284 "RPM Fusion nonfree repository for Fedora (13) <rpmfusion-buildsys@lists.rpmfusion.org>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-13-i386

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Running rpm_check_debug

Running Transaction Test

 

 

 

and after the update

 

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora release 13 (Goddard)

 

cool ! and easy

 

i'll post some screenshots later today



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[fraunthall]

It seems that you [administrator] downloaded the installation and update files for Fedora 13 and proceeded from there.

 

I, OTOH, used an installation DVD, so I can't follow your steps.

 

It seems that, generally, F13 is working on my notebook, but I cannot update it, either using the yum update command, or the option presented to me by the system to download and install some 500 or more updates, patches, etc., because of some missing GPG key in /etc.

 

The error message is as follows:

 

.............. GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-13-i386

 

On some forum I got the following suggestion to try:

 

.............. rpm --import etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-13-i386

 

That failed too.

 

If anyone can help me I would be grateful. Besides posting a reply, could you send an email to me at:

 

Fraunt Hall - fraunthall@gmail.com

 

That way I will be sure to get it. thanks everyone.