I just upgraded in order to install the latest gnucash (2.2.0).  I generally
had to manually remove several "el4" packages (using --nodeps) and manually
re-install the "el5" packages" (I think these were primarily packages from
the dag repos) before everything was quite happy.  One package had RHEL4 in
the name instead.  I believe most of the manual stuff centered around
multimedia (e.g. mplayer, xine, xmms and assorted plugins).

One other issue I ran into when upgrading from sl44 to sl5 is the currently
open problem of SATA ports with nothing attached.  Fedora Forums has some
info about working around the resulting hang when the module is loaded
(essentially using "options ata_pii noprobe" or something very similar to
that to prevent loading the SATA module).  Apparently the upstream vendor
will eventually be incorporating a kernel patch which fixes this.

Regards,
Dan W.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:47:05AM -0400, Harold Norris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have enjoyed working with SL 4.4, but some of the programs I wanted to 
> run needed upgraded programs and files.  After compiling numerous 
> libraries and programs, I finally came to the realization that it would 
> be a lot easier to upgrade to SL 5.
> 
> The upgrade from your DVD.iso went well, but when I went to use the 
> updater, I got the following errors:
> 
> kernel conflicts with e2fsprogs < 1.37-4
> Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.1.9-6.el4 is needed by package 
> freetype-utils
> Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.1.9-4.el4 is needed by package 
> freetype-utils
> 
> The new kernel is:
> 
> kernel-headers - 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.x86_64 updates kernel-headers - 
> 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.x86_64
> kernel - 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.x86_64 updates kernel - 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.x86_64
> kernel-devel - 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.x86_64 updates kernel-devel - 
> 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.x86_64
> kernel-doc - 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5.noarch updates kernel-doc - 
> 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.noarch
> 
> And the new freetype is:
> 
> freetype - 2.2.1-19.el5.x86_64 updates freetype - 2.2.1-17.el5.x86_64
> freetype-devel - 2.2.1-19.el5.x86_64 updates freetype-devel - 
> 2.2.1-17.el5.x86_64
> freetype-demos - 2.2.1-19.el5.x86_64 updates freetype-demos - 
> 2.2.1-17.el5.x86_64
> freetype - 2.2.1-19.el5.i386 updates freetype - 2.2.1-17.el5.i386
> 
> 
> Did I overlook something ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Harold Norris