Upgrading fc6 -> f7 with problems

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> I just did an upgrade fc6 to f7 using an f7 i386 DVD.
> 
> No warnings or errors.
> 
> Reboot,
> 
> yum update
> 
> Then I get a message: "No module named rpm" and
> no update.
> 
> It turned out that several of the packages needed
> for yum (e.g. python-rpm) were newer in the updated
> fc6 than on the f7 DVD I used for the installation,
> so after the upgrade the machine still had the fc6
> packages.
> 
> I had to manually "rpm --force -Uvh rpm-python.." for
> a couple of packages to get yum to run at all.
> 
> Shouldn't the upgrade process upgrade package-x-fc6 to
> package-y-f7 even though x>y?

How can you do that? Do you actually want the upgrade to downgrade 
specific packages to match the version in the media?

Rahul