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

[Paul Howarth]

Nat Gross wrote:
> On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>>On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 14:05 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
>>>On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>>>>Nat Gross wrote:
>>>>>On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>>>>What's in the .repo file for the "dag" repo?
>>>
>>># cat dag.repo.REN
>>>[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
>>>baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
>>
>>OK, try replacing that with this /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
>>
>>[dag]
>>name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
>>baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
>>gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
>>gpgcheck=1
>>enabled=0
>>
>>Then try "yum --enablerepo=dag update" and see how many "FC3" packages
>>you're left with afterwards.
>>
> 
> With dag enabled it updated just 2 pkg's. So, I did the same for dries
> and freshrpms.
> That did another 8 pkg's. Livna is down, so I couldn't try that.
> If I now do a 'yum remove *fc3*' I still get 55 pkgs to remove.
> Maybe I shouldn't post the entire output, but it might be beneficial,
> so kindly excuse if this is out of line. Here goes:
> =========================================
> # yum remove *fc3*
> Setting up Remove Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package iptstate.i386 0:1.4-1.1.fc3.rf set to be erased
> ---> Package rsync.i386 0:2.6.6-1.1.fc3.rf set to be erased
> ---> Package nmap.i386 2:3.93-0.1.fc3.rf set to be erased
> ---> Package rhythmbox.i386 0:0.8.8-2.1.fc3.rf set to be erased
> ---> Package sarg.i386 0:2.0.5-2.fc3.mack set to be erased
> ---> Package nscd.i386 0:2.3.6-0.fc3.1 set to be erased
> ---> Package syslinux.i386 0:3.11-1.1.fc3.rf set to be erased
> ---> Package redhat-artwork.i386 0:0.124-1.0.fc3.kde set to be erased
> ---> Package perl-Digest-SHA1.i386 0:2.10-1.1.fc3.rf set to be erased
> ---> Package nmap-frontend.i386 2:3.93-0.1.fc3.rf set to be erased
> ---> Package speex.i386 0:1.0.5-1.1.fc3.rf set to be erased
> --> Running transaction check

Right, you've got a bunch of packages installed with later "FC3" 
versions than the "official" "FC4" versions, and the repos you have 
configured aren't providing updates for these. So what I'd suggest is to 
replace them with the official FC4 packages:

# yum install yum-utils
# mkdir /tmp/fc4pkgs
# cd /tmp/fc4pkgs
# yumdownloader iptstate rsync nmap rhythmbox \
	nscd syslinux redhat-artwork perl-Digest-SHA1 \
	nmap-frontend speex
# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage *.rpm
# cd /tmp
# rm -rf fc4pkgs

Then see what you're left with.

Paul.