FC6: Things to Do after an FC6 Upgrade from FC5

On June 16, 2007, I upgraded my FC5 desktop system (described in §15.9 below) to FC6. This was my first Fedora upgrade (preferring normally to do fresh installations). The upgrade went fine, but the subsequent update had a few glitches:

• yum -y update (525 packages updated, 21 installed, 1081 updates!)
  ... Error: Missing Dependency: samba-common = 0:3.0.24-7.fc5 is needed by package samba-client
• yum install samba-common
• yum -y update
  ... Transaction Check Error: file /usr/include/sound/asequencer.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 conflicts with file from package alsa-driver-1.0.11-1.rhfc5.ccrma
  file /usr/include/sound/asound.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 conflicts with file from package alsa-driver-1.0.11-1.rhfc5.ccrma
  $\cdots$
  
• yum remove alsa-driver (now in OS -- also removes planetccrma-core)
• Reinstall bug workaround in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/misc/alt-rule.pro -- (see Getting LaTeX2HTML Working below).
• yum install planetccrma-apps -- (Requires prior installation of Planet CCRMA under FC5) -- 222 packages installed
• yum install planetccrma-menus

In retrospect, I wish I had burned a new FC6 DVD instead of using the old one I already had lying around (which I had used for upgrading my HP laptop). The upgrade from DVD took less time than the ``media check'' step, but the subsequent update took three attempts comprising many hours spread out over two days. Of course, actual interaction time was negligible, since all glitches had immediate solutions.

I also wish I had turned off my nightly mirroring of /etc and /usr/local for a few days so I could refer back to the FC5 version if need be. So far I haven't needed to do this, and I hope the .rpmnew versions of updated system configuration files will be sufficient.