So, i conclude that if I have a FC4 system and do an upgrade from the DVD to FC5, then yum update, my installed programs won't be "wiped-out" and they'd still work, right? <div>On 22/03/06, yonas abraham <<a href="mailto:yonas@erimp3.com">yonas@erimp3.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Jim Cornette wrote: > yonas abraham wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I know that the extra packages don't come with the FC5 DVD. so when I >> choose upgrade option at inistall time, how do the dependency get >> resolved for the packages i had from FC4-extra? did it break them ? >> >> > > It probably left the programs depending on libs that are no longer on > your system and were replaced upward in versions. Doing a yum update > afterwards *should* bring the packages back to functionality. > > The maintainers/developers for Fedora-Extras tracked the development > up to FC5 pretty much. They did an excellent job for packages that I > use from the repository. > > Jim > Thanks Jim, It did it. before yum update, I have seen several *FC4.rpm left in the rpmdb. I did yum update and it updated with no problem. thanks again -- Yonas Abraham, PhD Registered Linux user number 407343 <a href="http://counter.li.org">http://counter.li.org</a> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com"> fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- A. Helmy