FC4 -> FC5 upgrade gone awry

[Paul Howarth]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Monkey Pet wrote:
>> I know this isn't supported, but I did it anyways telling myself
>> that I could get myself out of trouble if I got into trouble.  Here
>> it is...
>>
>> I tried to upgrade to FC4 -> FC5, using 'yum upgrade', and it seems
>> to succeeded after lots of brute force work resolving some broken
>> dependencies from 3rd party repos.  However, I know some packages
>> did not upgrade.  The system boots and is usable though.  I guess
>> the root cause is that some 3rd party repos packages had a higher
>> version number than the one in fc5.  So here is what I want:
>>
>> 1.   I want to make sure all packages installed are built for fc5.
>> 2.   I want to check all packages and make sure they exist in the
>> fc5 repos mentioned in the yum.repos.d
> 
> I think yum list extras can help you out here.  Just disable the 3rd
> party repos (either in the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d or on the
> command line with --disablerepo).

If all of the repos in /etc/yum.repos.d are FC5-based repos (and that 
includes the third party repos), "yum list extras" should do exactly 
what the OP wants, i.e. list any packages not found in the fc5 repos 
mentioned in the yum.repos.d.

Paul.