FC5 packages on FC6

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Wed Dec 20 11:44:32 UTC 2006


Brandon Rambo wrote:
> ok this is prolly a stupid question... but is there anyway to get some of
> the packages that where included with FC5 but not FC6 installed on FC6
> besides recompiling... like a yum repos?
If a package doesn't rely on very recent libraries, then you may be able 
to use an fc5 package on fc6 {etc}
# yum localinstall xyz
and see if it is complaining.

> if not is there a list of all the packages that where left out of FC6 
> but in
> FC5?
I think that would be in the fc6 release notes.

DaveT.




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