yum upgrade F8->F9

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2008-09-17 11:33, Globe Trotter wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: yum upgrade F8->F9
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 4:00 AM
>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:07:55 -0700 (PDT), Globe Trotter
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone had experience with
>> upgrading F8 to F9 of late. I get a strange bunch of
>> dependencies which indicate that the current rpms (to be
>> upgraded) have dependencies on the old (F8) ones. For
>> example, claws-mail in F8 needs libssl.so.6, etc.
>>> But why should yum care? Claws-mail itself will be
>> updated to the new.
>>
>> Verify that a newer claws-mail is available actually. It
>> must be seen by
>> Yum, or else you keep the F8 pkg and its dependencies.
>> Sometimes packagers
>> make mistakes and offer a newer pkg release for the older
>> dist(s). Make
>> sure F9 Updates (or even Test Updates) repo is enabled, so
>> really the
>> latest F9 pkgs are used as updates.
> 
> Hmmm, man thanks! But the claws-mail is exactly the same, but for the distribution number. On FC8 (installed), it is:
> 
> claws-mail-3.5.0-1.fc8
> 
> On FC9, the latest is:
> 
> claws-mail-3.5.0-1.fc9
> 
> Do I just use enablerepo=updates to be sure that F9 updates is being enabled. I was relying on the default, which seems to have worked previously.
> 
> Best, 
> Trotter
> 
> 
>       
> 

My guess is, it has to do with the new key repositories:

When you upgrade from F8 to F9, you use the F9 distribution repository 
and the *old* updates repository.  This would give you a unupdated F9, 
except for the stuff that is in the old updates repo, and that contains 
*only* the stuff to get to the newkey repo.  The problem is that some 
stuff in an updated F8 have higher version numbers than the unupdated 
stuff in F9.  claws-mail is an example of such a package.  You updated 
F8 version is 3.5.0-1.fc8, but the unupdated F9 version is 3.3.1-4.fc9.

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Sjoerd Mullender