[GRLUG] Can't upgrade to Fedora 17

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 13:38 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 05:55 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: 
> > Update: I was able to complete the upgrade from the Fedora 17 live cd. A
> > real hassle, though, needing to do a fresh install. Evolution in
> > particular is a pain. After restoring my home directory, I opened
> > Evolution, which then proceeded, as nearly as I can tell, with
> > overwriting my old Evo data in .local/share/evolution. So I had to
> > re-copy all of that manually. A real pain, particularly when Evo didn't
> > want to recognize my calendar and contacts. I finally got it to
> > recognize the calendar stuff by using the Import Individual File option,
> > selecting the calendar.ics that was already in ...evolution/calendar. 
> 
> > Does anyone know what I can do to get my contacts re-installed? I think
> > maybe Evo switched from some other DB format to SQLite. But how do I
> > convert the old addressbook.db?
> 
> Yes, Evolution changed quite some time ago to use the XDG spec for
> storing data.  It (along with everyone else) also left BDB in favor of
> SQLite.
> <http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html.en>
> 
> But an upgrade does not overwrite data, as the data gets recreates in a
> different place.  The evolution@ list is probably a good place to ask.
> <https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list>

Unfortunately, as I learned last year, the people on the list are pretty
snotty about helping anyone who doesn't have an official Evo backup and
relied instead on an rdiff-backup. (<rant> E.g., they said, "Of course,
you're not supposed to be messing with hidden file anyway."--First time
I head that in 10 years of working with Linux. And I don't think I've
seen any other application that requires you to use their backup and
doesn't maintain backward compatibility with older file formats. There's
certainly nothing in the help documents that informs the user of this.
</rant>)

I thought I had muddled through last year and gotten everything sorted
out, but apparently the contacts files did not get updated and so now I
need a way to convert the old addressbook.db to the new sqlite format.

EB