[GRLUG] Can't upgrade to Fedora 17

[Bob Kline]

The list usually has one or two high-strung,
nervous types who believe everyone else is
an idiot.  These come and go.  I wouldn't
extend this to the whole list however. It's
often the case in real world that one has to
bare the neck a little, in a show of submission,
before a stronger member helps a weaker one.
But more often than not one does get good
help and suggestions here, even if there can
be a small price - maybe just a small lecture.

   -- Bob


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Eric Beversluis <
ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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