Can I delete *FC3* files from my FC4 system?

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:44 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> > Any of those may work *too* well. Be sure to eyeball the list of
> > proposed deletions.
> >
> > On the other tentacle, some packages have "fc3", others "FC3", and I
> > don't know if yum or rpm is case sensitive. On yet another tentacle,
> > this does not handle the case of duplicate RPMs that do not have the
> > Fedora version in the file name.
> Woa! Listen to this! I now tried (per your input) lowercase fc3. And
> what a list I got!
> I need the eyeballs of many here before I hit 'y' on yum. (This
> machine is now primarily a databse server, and I dont mind the
> cleanup. But the FC4 (thats a 4) dependencies worry me. Here goes:
> =========================================================
> .....
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Removing:
>  iptstate                i386       1.4-1.1.fc3.rf   installed          50 k
>  nmap                    i386       2:3.93-0.1.fc3.rf  installed         2.6 M
>  nmap-frontend           i386       2:3.93-0.1.fc3.rf  installed          78 k
>  nscd                    i386       2.3.6-0.fc3.1    installed          82 k
>  perl-Digest-SHA1        i386       2.10-1.1.fc3.rf  installed         100 k
>  redhat-artwork          i386       0.124-1.0.fc3.kde  installed         5.2 M
>  rhythmbox               i386       0.8.8-2.1.fc3.rf  installed         3.4 M
>  rsync                   i386       2.6.6-1.1.fc3.rf  installed         506 k
>  sarg                    i386       2.0.5-2.fc3.mack  installed         438 k
>  speex                   i386       1.0.5-1.1.fc3.rf  installed         304 k
>  syslinux                i386       3.11-1.1.fc3.rf  installed         1.1 M

The above are all from third-party repositories (rpmforge and kde-redhat
I think), and some of them replaced packages included in Fedora Core,
which is why the list of dependencies below almost certainly includes
lots of stuff you actually want.

> Removing for dependencies:
>  HelixPlayer             i386       1:1.0.6-1.fc4.2  installed         9.0 M
>  NetworkManager-gnome    i386       0.5.1-1.FC4.4    installed         294 k
>  arts                    i386       8:1.5.0-1.3.fc4.kde  installed         4.3 M
>  control-center          i386       1:2.10.1-6       installed         6.6 M
>  dbus-qt                 i386       0.33-3.2.fc4.kde  installed          64 k
>  eel2                    i386       2.10.0-2         installed         1.2 M
>  file-roller             i386       2.10.0-1         installed         3.2 M
>  firstboot               noarch     1.3.42-1         installed         800 k
>  gdm                     i386       1:2.6.0.8-16     installed         7.9 M
>  gedit                   i386       1:2.10.2-4       installed          12 M
>  gnome-applets           i386       1:2.10.1-9       installed          28 M
>  gnome-desktop           i386       2.10.0-5         installed         1.3 M
>  gnome-media             i386       2.10.2-4         installed         5.0 M
>  gnome-netstatus         i386       2.10.0-4         installed         909 k
>  gnome-panel             i386       2.10.1-10.2      installed         8.4 M
>  gnome-pilot             i386       2.0.13-2         installed         1.7 M
>  gnome-pilot-conduits    i386       2.0.13-1         installed         394 k
>  gnome-session           i386       2.10.0-2         installed         1.2 M
>  gnome-utils             i386       1:2.10.0-4       installed          13 M
>  gnome-volume-manager    i386       1.3.1-1          installed         737 k
>  gstreamer-plugins       i386       0.8.8-9          installed         3.6 M
>  k3b                     i386       0.12.10-0.1.fc4.kde  installed          10 M
>  kdeadmin                i386       7:3.5.0-1.0.fc4.1  installed         4.2 M
>  kdeartwork              i386       3.5.0-1.0.fc4.kde  installed         8.8 M
>  kdebase                 i386       6:3.5.0-1.2.fc4.kde  installed          53 M
>  kdelibs                 i386       6:3.5.0-4.2.fc4.kde  installed          43 M
>  kdenetwork              i386       7:3.5.0-1.3.fc4.kde  installed          26 M
>  kdeutils                i386       6:3.5.0-2.0.fc4.kde  installed         9.1 M
>  libgail-gnome           i386       1.1.0-5          installed          59 k
>  metacity                i386       2.10.3-1         installed         8.5 M
>  mkbootdisk              i386       1.5.2-5          installed         6.9 k
>  nautilus                i386       2.10.0-4         installed          11 M
>  nautilus-cd-burner      i386       2.10.0-2         installed         896 k
>  nss_ldap                i386       234-4            installed         2.7 M
>  openh323                i386       1.15.6-1.FC4     installed          25 M
>  perl-Digest-HMAC        noarch     1.01-14          installed          11 k
>  perl-Net-DNS            i386       0.49-2           installed         401 k
>  pinentry-qt             i386       0.7.1-4          installed         126 k
>  qt                      i386       1:3.3.5-11.1.fc4.kde  installed   
>      8.9 M
>  redhat-lsb              i386       1.3-10           installed          17 k
>  spamassassin            i386       3.0.4-2.fc4      installed         1.8 M
>  system-config-display   noarch     1.0.29-1         installed         610 k
>  tsclient                i386       0.132-6          installed         411 k
>  xine-lib                i386       1.1.0-1.2.fc4    installed          11 M

I would suggest that you updated your yum configuration to include the
"fc4" versions of the third-party repositories you use, then do a "yum
update". That should replace most of the "fc3" packages with "fc4"
versions.

Paul.