slow FC4 to FC5 upgrade

[John Swartzentruber]

On 3/24/2006 11:16 AM rus wrote:
> I found the same problem, and after installing, a 'yum update' also took
> forever.
> 
> Eventually I narrowed it down to the test transaction stage, and in
> particular, the fact that I had about 15 old kernel-devel packages (from
> my previous FC4 installation) was crippling rpm transactions.
> 
> I wrote a quick bash script to loop through and 'rpm -e' all my old FC4
> kernel-devel packages - which took quite a long time.  It seemed to cure
> the problem for me.

How do I know what kernel-devel packages I have? Did you grep it out of 
an rpm listing? If it is simple, would you be willing to post that 
script? I have another computer to upgrade eventually, so I might want 
to clean things up in advance.