Re: FC3 -> FC4 upgrade leaves old packages

[akonstam trinity edu]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:08:53PM -0800, Ed Swierk wrote:
> I just completed an upgrade from FC3 to FC4 using the FC4 CDs.
> 
> What I'm left with can hardly be called an FC4 installation, since it
> left nearly 80 FC3 packages untouched, including kernel and glibc.
> 
> My guess is that anaconda decided not to upgrade certain updated FC3
> packages whose FC4 counterparts had lower version numbers.
> 
> Have others run into this problem? I would like to help my colleagues
> avoid the same mess when they upgrade.
> 
> --Ed
> 
Would you expect an upograding program to upgrade to packages with a
lowere version number? You can't expect any upgrading system to know
that to go to a hoigher version of the distribution lower versions of
packages need to be installed.


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