Re: Distribution checking tool

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On May 19, 2004, Gerard Milmeister <gemi bluewin ch> wrote:

> This tool would check for packages from older distributions that deemed
> obsolete

up2date --show-orphans

> It would look for .rpmsave and .rpmnew files.

locate .rpmsave

locate .rpmnew


That said, having firstboot run that after an upgrade and ask the user
what to do sounds like a reasonable idea.  Where's the patch? :-)

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