FC4 -> FC8: anaconda looping?

[John Summerfield]

Mike Yates wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>> This is a known issue.
>>
>> You need to compile a list of rpms you have that originate from 
>> non-Fedora yum repositories, and nuke them.
>>
>> You can reinstall them after the upgrade, and after you've updated the 
>> core Fedora 8 install with all the current updates.
>>
> 
> OK, but what an issue!
> Does it apply to FC7 too?
> 
> That looks ridiculously laborious.
> Maybe easier to build a new system off-line and switch over to it.
> 
> # rpm -qa | wc -l
> 1672
> # rpm -qa | grep fc4 | wc -l
> 259

I don't think that's a useful guide. Use
  rpm -qa --qf '%{name} %{BUILDHOST}\n'
to see who built what.
to see what else you can query,
rpm --querytags | less

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