Description of problem: After upgrading a machine using fedup from F18 to F19 "yum history info" did not show the upgrade, and "yumdb info" was not available for any of the packages upgraded (so no "from_repo" data etc).
That's because the upgrade isn't a yum transaction. It's roughly: rpm --root /sysroot -Uvh $(cat /sysroot/system-upgrade/package.list) run from inside a F19 initrd, with your system mounted at /sysroot. The initrd doesn't have yum in it, nor do I want to put yum in there. However: all the relevant yum metadata is available on the target system, so if there's a way to generate the desired metadata outside of the RPM transaction, that'd be a great thing to put in the fedup 'upgrade-post' script hook.
> rpm --root /sysroot -Uvh $(cat /sysroot/system-upgrade/package.list) [...] > The initrd doesn't have yum in it, nor do I want to put yum in there. Wow, that's impressive in it's purity of yum abuse. It sure is good we have such a cohesive packaging tools strategy. > so if there's a way to generate the desired metadata outside of the RPM transaction You can run "yumdb sync", but that's meant to be run as a fixup because something went wrong ... but given fedup is designed to be wrong. It's not obvious if it's better to try running that a lot, and see what problems it causes, or just give up.
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