when upgrading from FC4 to FC5 from the DVD what will happen to the Extra pakages?

Ali Helmy alihelmy at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 22:50:36 UTC 2006


So, i conclude that if I have a FC4 system and do an upgrade from the DVD to
FC5, then yum update, my installed programs won't be "wiped-out" and they'd
still work, right?

On 22/03/06, yonas abraham <yonas at erimp3.com> wrote:
>
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> > yonas abraham wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I know that the extra packages don't come with the FC5 DVD. so when I
> >> choose upgrade option at inistall time,  how do the dependency get
> >> resolved for the packages i had from FC4-extra? did it break them ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It probably left the programs depending on libs that are no longer on
> > your system and were replaced upward in versions. Doing a yum update
> > afterwards *should* bring the packages back to functionality.
> >
> > The maintainers/developers for Fedora-Extras tracked the development
> > up to FC5 pretty much. They did an excellent job for packages that I
> > use from the repository.
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
> Thanks Jim,
>
> It did it. before yum update, I have seen several *FC4.rpm left in the
> rpmdb. I did yum update and it updated with no problem.
>
> thanks again
>
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