Fedora F13 to F14 upgrade leaves RPM database with strange mix of fc13 and fc14 packages

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 08:45:26 UTC 2010


On 05/11/10 08:40, Deron Meranda wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Frank Murphy<frankly3d at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 05/11/10 08:25, Deron Meranda wrote:
>>> Investigating just a little more, using the tzdata package...
>> <snip>
>>
>> yum distribution-synchronization
>>
>> This will leave you with what is in the F14 repos
>
> That looks like it wants to downgrade several packages:
>
><snip>
>
> So I guess that's the answer to the mystery. The F14 disc seems to
> have packages from past releases.  I didn't expect that.
>

F14 was done without a "mass rebuild" to rename fc13 to fc14.

If you find something breaks because of a newer fc13, you may need to 
downgrade, otherwise if not broken. Maybe let them play together.

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Frank Murphy
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