Remove 1507 Package(s) ?

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 26 May 2010, Klaus Grue wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to F13. It's nice. But look at this:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade says
>
>> Common post-upgrade tasks ...
>> Some packages may no longer be supported by the new release ...
>> These can be identified with the following command:
>>   package-cleanup --orphans
>
> So I did this:
>
>> package-cleanup --orphans
> ...
> nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.6-1.2.fc11.x86_64
> ...
>> yum remove nss-softokn-freebl
> ...
> Remove     1507 Package(s)
> Reinstall     0 Package(s)
> Downgrade     0 Package(s)
> Is this ok [y/N]: N
>
> 1507 packages is about all I have.
>
> Is there a problem in wiki/PreUpgrade or package-cleanup or dependencies?

a package orphan is any pkg you have installed which no longer appears in 
any repo you have.

If you had upgraded to the new repos for f13 but not upgraded all pkgs 
then nss-softokn-freebl might have been an orphan but also required.

if you try to update it, do you get anything?

-sv