[kwlug-disc] Upgrading Underlying Fedora 26 to Fedora 27 on the Vortexbox 2.4 Distribution.

[David Critch]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 1:35 PM, John Driezen <jdriezen at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>
> I am attempting to upgrade the underlying Fedora 26 OS to Fedora 27 OS on
> my Vortexbox linux distribution using the following command:
>
> dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27.
>
> This time I think I have run into a bigger snag.   The error messages
> follow.
>
> Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running
> "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: y
> Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'vortexbox', disabling.
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Fri 27 Jul 2018 07:57:40 AM
> EDT.
> Error:
>  Problem 1: package logitechmediaserver-1:7.9.1-0.
> 6.20170928git1508251793.fc25.noarch requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.24.2),
> but none of the providers can be installed
>   - perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade
> repository
>   - problem with installed package logitechmediaserver-1:7.9.1-0.
> 6.20170928git1508251793.fc25.noarch
>  Problem 2: package perl-Class-XSAccessor-1.19-13.fc27.x86_64 requires
> libperl.so.5.26()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>   - cannot install both perl-libs-4:5.26.2-406.fc27.x86_64 and
> perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64
>   - cannot install both perl-libs-4:5.26.1-401.fc27.x86_64 and
> perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64
>   - problem with installed package perl-Class-XSAccessor-1.19-10.
> fc26.x86_64
>   - package logitechmediaserver-CPAN-1:7.9.1-0.3.20150426git1426673042.fc25.x86_64
> requires libperl.so.5.24()(64bit), but none of the providers can be
> installed
>   - perl-Class-XSAccessor-1.19-10.fc26.x86_64 does not belong to a
> distupgrade repository
>   - problem with installed package logitechmediaserver-CPAN-1:7.9
> .1-0.3.20150426git1426673042.fc25.x86_64
>  Problem 3: package perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.074-396.fc27.x86_64
> requires libperl.so.5.26()(64bit), but none of the providers can be
> installed
>   - cannot install both perl-libs-4:5.26.2-406.fc27.x86_64 and
> perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64
>   - cannot install both perl-libs-4:5.26.1-401.fc27.x86_64 and
> perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64
>   - problem with installed package perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.074-
> 1.fc26.x86_64
>   - package perl-MusicBrainz-DiscID-0.03-4.fc25.x86_64 requires
> libperl.so.5.24()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>   - perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.074-1.fc26.x86_64 does not belong to a
> distupgrade repository
>   - problem with installed package perl-MusicBrainz-DiscID-0.03-4
> .fc25.x86_64
>  Problem 4: package perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.25-395.fc27.x86_64 requires
> libperl.so.5.26()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>   - cannot install both perl-libs-4:5.26.2-406.fc27.x86_64 and
> perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64
>   - cannot install both perl-libs-4:5.26.1-401.fc27.x86_64 and
> perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64
>   - package perl-MusicBrainz-DiscID-0.03-4.fc25.x86_64 requires
> libperl.so.5.24()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>   - problem with installed package perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.25-36
> 6.fc26.x86_64
>   - package ripit-3.9.1-2.fc25.noarch requires perl-MusicBrainz-DiscID,
> but none of the providers can be installed
>   - perl-Unicode-Normalize-1.25-366.fc26.x86_64 does not belong to a
> distupgrade repository
>   - problem with installed package ripit-3.9.1-2.fc25.noarch
>  Problem 5: package perl-Text-LevenshteinXS-0.03-31.fc27.x86_64 requires
> libperl.so.5.26()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>   - cannot install both perl-libs-4:5.26.2-406.fc27.x86_64 and
> perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64
>   - cannot install both perl-libs-4:5.26.1-401.fc27.x86_64 and
> perl-libs-4:5.24.4-397.fc26.x86_64
>   - package perl-MusicBrainz-DiscID-0.03-4.fc25.x86_64 requires
> libperl.so.5.24()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>   - package ripit-3.9.1-2.fc25.noarch requires perl-MusicBrainz-DiscID,
> but none of the providers can be installed
>   - problem with installed package perl-Text-LevenshteinXS-0.03-2
> 8.fc26.x86_64
>   - package vb-autoripper-1.0-1.fc23.noarch requires ripit, but none of
> the providers can be installed
>   - perl-Text-LevenshteinXS-0.03-28.fc26.x86_64 does not belong to a
> distupgrade repository
>   - problem with installed package vb-autoripper-1.0-1.fc23.noarch
> (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting
> packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
>
> If I am understanding these error messages correctly, the new perl
> libraries can not be installed at the same time as the old libraries.  The
> vortexbox scripts depend on the old libraries. Any suggestions?  Being
> stuck at Fedora 26 is acceptable as well. This is just for my personal
> media server to serve files on my internal network, not for serving files
> on the internet.
>


Yup. I'm guessing the vortex stuff adds its own repos? And their software
requires the older versions. You could try adding the packages that can't
be upgraded to a yum/dnf exclude file[0] and hope there are only a few so
it doesn't end up cascading on you.



[0] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/10185


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