Packaging changes with Fedora?

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 4 04:45:40 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:39, John Stoneham wrote:
> I've just arrived on the list; took a look around Fedora today and it looks
> like there's already an excellent user community surrounding it, which is
> encouraging.
> 
> I'm looking for a list of packages which have been removed / deprecated /
> renamed / repackaged. I have an up-to-date Shrike box at the moment. As I
> have a few RPMs on here which aren't Red Hat-issued, I usually upgrade
> distributions by downloading all the RPMs that update packages I need, then
> doing a massive 'rpm -Uvh'. (This usually requires a few iterations as RH
> traces down the dependencies and tells me about new dependencies I need to
> satisfy.) This path has served me well from RH7 through 9. I'd like to do
> the same and move to the Severn release, but there's some packages that I
> can't find the new version of.

The Fedora Core 1 Release Notes in rawhide lists packages removed,
added, deprecated.

Try

ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RELEASE-NOTES.html

to view the Release Notes.

Gerry






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