Migration Guides

Fedora 3 Migration Support

If you are still using a 2.x Fedora installation, it is highly recommended that you move to 3.2.
This page is meant to be a starting point to provide extra information to ease the migration process from Fedora versions 2.x to versions 3.x. We are enlisting your participation in creating a community of support to not only ensure successful migration experiences, but to provide meaningful feedback and patches to help improve the migration utilities software.

• If you have recently migrated to 3.x, you are encouraged to note your experiences, successes , and otherwise below.
• If you are planning (or would like to start planning) a migration, please do not hesitate to let us know.
  Users are encouraged to add questions, resources or their contact information if they are willing to help. This information is all meant to supplement the official migration guides listed above.

Contacts

The following individuals have volunteered to share their experience and try to answer questions and offer support for those having difficulty migrating their repository. If information cannot be found here, or in the mailing list archives, users are encouraged to e-mail the mailing list to maximize the number of individuals that can help and so that others may benefit from the exchange.

• Michael Durbin

Migration FAQ

Many questions about migration have been posted to the Fedora mailing lists. The most common themes are linked below, though a full listing or search can be performed here: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=177054

Questions encountered when migrating from 2.x to 3.2

• none yet

Questions encountered when migrating from 2.x to 3.1

• What do I do when the Analyzer/Generator/Transformer fails because of an exception "Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jrdf/graph/PredicateNode"?
  • Mailing list thread
  • Mailing list question
• What do I do when the analyzer fails because duplicate PID?
  • Mailing list thread

Experiences, Walkthroughs and Information

• Chris Wilper's Blog posts about Fedora (includes an overview of the new CMA)
• Indiana University Digital Library Program's Migration Experience
• Open Repositories 2009 presentation: Fedora 3: A Smooth Migration
• Survey of Experiences
  • results pending

Discussion and advice

Users are encouraged to add their own stories, problems, or advice here.