{logwatch|tzdata}.fc4 newer than fc5 version

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Apr 3 14:14:19 UTC 2006


mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Last friday I upgraded a fully updates FC4 box to FC5. The upgrade was
> flawless. While looking for leftover FC4 packages, I came across:
> 
> [afgani at cpc155 ~]$ rpm -qa --qf %-30{NAME}' '%{DISTRIBUTION}'\n' | grep
> "(FC-4)"$
> logwatch                       Red Hat (FC-4)
> tzdata                         Red Hat (FC-4)
> 
> and a few others (kernel_FC4, hal.fc4, gnome-kerberos,
> system-config-mouse) which were easily removed.
> 
> Comparing version numbers:
> 
> [afgani at cpc155 ~]$ sudo yum list tzdata logwatch
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up repositories
> core                                                                 [1/3]
> core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                                                              [2/3]
> updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                                                               [3/3]
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Installed Packages
> logwatch.noarch                          7.2.1-1.fc4            installed
> tzdata.noarch                            2006b-2.fc4            installed
> Available Packages
> logwatch.noarch                          7.1-8                  core
> tzdata.noarch                            2006b-1                core
> 
> it seems that fc4 contains updated packages while fc5 does not. These
> updates were released on March 22nd but the fc5 packages are dated March
> 6th. I searched the updates and testing branches of fc5 but it looks like
> updates to those packages are not even in testing yet. I then looked
> through the development branch and saw a 7.3 version of logwatch; but the
> version of tzdata was still 2006b-1 (i.e. even older than the fc4 update)
> 
> So, what shall do at this point? Should I just leave the newer versions?
> Or, should I grab the fc5 rpms and do "rpm --oldpackage --replacefiles" ?

I'd be inclined to leave them as-is but bugzilla them. The FC5 versions 
*should* always appear to be "newer" than the FC4 versions. There should 
be updates for FC5 to bring them to at least the same level as FC4.

Paul.




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