FC3 -> FC4 upgrade leaves old packages

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Thu Nov 10 23:13:12 UTC 2005


Ed Swierk wrote:

> My guess is that anaconda decided not to upgrade certain updated FC3
> packages whose FC4 counterparts had lower version numbers.
> 
> Have others run into this problem? I would like to help my colleagues
> avoid the same mess when they upgrade.

Yeah I saw it when downgrading from the development branch on one machine.

Can you compare, say,

rpm -qa | grep glibc

to the glibc* on FC4 base, eg

glibc-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm                                     30-May-2005
16:16  4.2M
glibc-2.3.5-10.i686.rpm                                     30-May-2005
16:16  5.7M
glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm                              30-May-2005
16:16   14M
glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm                               30-May-2005
16:16  1.9M
glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm                             30-May-2005
16:16  594K
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.94.i386.rpm                       20-May-2005
14:36  706K
glibc-profile-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm                             30-May-2005
16:16  1.1M
glibc-utils-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm                               30-May-2005
16:16   98K

-Andy
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