running F20 but still have F17, F18, F19 packages installed, why?

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Sat Jan 25 09:39:29 UTC 2014


On 01/25/14 16:45, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> I am running F20. I first installed F18 I guessed or F17, I do not
> remember well and used fedup to update my installation.
>
> However, when I can see that packages with .fc17 .fc18 and .fc19 in
> there name are still installed (see below). Is that normal?

Yes, it can be quite normal.  Packages are not always updated when a new release comes out.  There will even be cases where the package in a new release is an older version than the previous release.  This can be observed when a distro-sync results in package downgrades.


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