Can I delete *FC3* files from my FC4 system?

[Nat Gross]

On 1/26/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Nat Gross wrote:
> > On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> >>On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 14:05 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
> >>>On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> >>>>Nat Gross wrote:
> >>>>>On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
<snip>

> Right, you've got a bunch of packages installed with later "FC3"
> versions than the "official" "FC4" versions, and the repos you have
> configured aren't providing updates for these. So what I'd suggest is to
> replace them with the official FC4 packages:
>
> # yum install yum-utils
> # mkdir /tmp/fc4pkgs
> # cd /tmp/fc4pkgs
> # yumdownloader iptstate rsync nmap rhythmbox \
>         nscd syslinux redhat-artwork perl-Digest-SHA1 \
>         nmap-frontend speex
> # rpm -Uvh --oldpackage *.rpm
> # cd /tmp
> # rm -rf fc4pkgs
>
> Then see what you're left with.
Just reporting that I duplicated this effort on another box (with
various fc3 pkg's) and successfully completed the cleanup (with
yumdownloader).
Thanks again;
-nat