F10 upgrade leaves behind F9 packages
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Thu Nov 27 09:47:45 UTC 2008
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:20:42 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> did an upgrade from F9 (latest updates) to F10 using anaconda. Everything worked
> ~ fine, after some time all packages were downloaded and installed. Then anaconda
> showed a status bar telling me it's finishing the upgrade process. This stayed
> on the screen for some 10 minutes and I thought it was hung (somebody else
> reported the same on the list but can't find the thread). Rebooting works and
> I'm able to log into GNOME. What's obvious is that there are much more packages
> installed on the system and lots of foo-version.fc9 && foo-version.fc10 packages.
>
> Do these duplicated packages pose any risk to the system? Is it safe to just rpm
> - -e them?
Try out the yum-complete-transaction utility from yum-utils.
If it doesn't help, use "package-cleanup --cleandupes", also from
yum-utils.
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