FC5->FC6T3 (DVD) upgrade dies. Time to consider test4? (Was: Yum upgrade?)

Ian Burrell ianburrell at gmail.com
Tue Sep 19 19:18:59 UTC 2006


On 9/19/06, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Rahul wrote:
> >
> > Thats strange because system-config-mouse was dropped before FC5 release.
> >
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#id2947593
>
> Probably left over from the upgrade from FC4 to FC5.
>
> This is going to bite anyone who upgrades FC4->FC5->FC6.
>

Then you need to remove it first.  One downside of the yum upgrade is
that it does not remove obsolete packages.  After I do a yum upgrade,
I always do a "yum list extras" and remove the obsoleted packages.
And it much safer to remove and reinstall packages from third-party
repositories.

 - Ian




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