upgrading rh9+3rd party rpms

[Kevin Bowen]

Ok, so before installing fedora, I want to downgrade all my packages to
their rh9 versions, so that I don't end up with a partial fedora install
(mixed fedora/3rd party packages) due to some of the 3rd party packages
being the same version numbers as their fedora counterparts)... would
'rpm --freshen --oldpackage *.rpm' do the trick (from my rh9 cd's rpm
directory)?

The reason I'm worrying so much about this, in case anyone is wondering, is
that some of the gnome 2.4 packages from the nyquist repository seem to be
packaged sloppily and cause problems for me, so I want to make sure they all
get replaced by fedora, and not just screwed up even further by another
layer of repository-mixing.

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jeremy Katz
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:18 PM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: upgrading rh9+3rd party rpms


On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 14:46, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas though on my question? Can anyone tell me how the
> Fedora upgrade install deals with non-redhat packages on a system? Will it
> clobber them (hopefully)?

If the versions in Fedora are greater than the version already
installed, then it will get upgraded.  Otherwise it will be left as is.

Jeremy


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