FC4 -> FC5 upgrade gone awry

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/22/06, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this isn't supported, but I did it anyways telling myself that I
> could get myself out of trouble if I got into trouble.  Here it is...
>
> I tried to upgrade to FC4 -> FC5, using 'yum upgrade', and it seems to
> succeeded after lots of brute force work resolving some broken dependencies
> from 3rd party repos.  However, I know some packages did not upgrade.  The
> system boots and is usable though.  I guess the root cause is that some 3rd
> party repos packages had a higher version number than the one in fc5.  So
> here is what I want:
>
> 1.   I want to make sure all packages installed are built for fc5.
> 2.   I want to check all packages and make sure they exist in the fc5 repos
> mentioned in the yum.repos.d
>
> I am wondering if someone has solved this problem with a script, if not I'll
> be hacking away at it.

I don't have a pretty solution for your problem, but this command
should at least show you all the non-FC5 packages that you currently
have installed:
rpm -qa | grep -vi fc5


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