Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

[Simon Andrews]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> this time the DVD has become completely useless for upgrades,
> unless you like having to fetch an updated yum by hand (which, if you are a
> KDE user, you have to do from runlevel 3 because KDE (including KDM) is
> also broken after the upgrade for basically the same reason yum is - good
> luck with the command-line ftp!

Actually there is a slightly simpler fix which is:

su -
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
yum update yum -y

There was also a proposed update for F10 which (I think) altered the 
python path so the upgrade was not broken (the F10 yum was still present 
but was functional), but this didn't make it beyond Koji.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506685

This is still a bad situation to end up in, but it could have been worse!

Simon.