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

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 07:44 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> Preupgrade has access to the network BEFORE the anaconda run, that's the
>> whole point. It processes the pkg lists and downloads all the needed pkgs
>> beforehand.
>>
>> So the anaconda run won't need network access b/c all the pkgs are taken
>> care of.
>
> Doesn't the anaconda run still need to grab the repodata from the repos
> in use, it just uses what preugprade downloaded as a hot cache for the
> transaction?

preupgrade figures out what you need
downloads the pkgs
downloads the rest of the metadata
then runs createrepo on the stuff it just downloaded

it is a little world all unto itself.

-sv