F10 upgrade leaves behind F9 packages

[Alexander Todorov]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:20:42AM +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
>> Then anaconda showed a status bar telling me it's finishing the
>> upgrade process. This stayed on the screen for some 10 minutes and
>> I thought it was hung (somebody else reported the same on the list
>> but can't find the thread).
> 
> Depending on a number of packages you are updating, amounts of
> memory, a speed of your disk and CPU (probably in that order) this
> phase may take _hours_ (yes, multiple).  Installing from scratch
> is definitely a faster procedure than updating.
> 
> You can check that your machine is not dead through a text console
> but some graphic "I'am not dead but truly busy" indicator would
> be really nice here.
> 
>> Rebooting works and
>> I'm able to log into GNOME.
> 
> You just interrupted a cleanup phase and that leaves a considerable
> mess.  A crashing update may do that to you but you got yourself
> into that mess on your own volition.
> 

All you said below was correct. Thing is that anaconda didn't inform the user it 
was doing a cleanup. A busy progress bar doesn't indicate much.

btw I've managed to recover the system to a sane state.

>> What's obvious is that there are much more packages installed on
>> the system and lots of foo-version.fc9 && foo-version.fc10
>> packages.
> 
> Some packages may be really from older systems if they are not
> duplicates.
> 
>> Do these duplicated packages pose any risk to the system?
> 
> You will likely be in a big trouble with dependencies on the
> next attempt to update.
> 
>> Is it safe to just rpm -e them?
> 
> Not really.  'rpm -Va' will likely report hundreds of files missing
> after such operation.  Try yum-complete-transaction instead although
> 'rpm -Va' may still turn out not to be totally happy.
> 
>    Michal
>