FC6 to FC7 Upgrade, some package not updated

[Jim Duda]

Todd,

Thanks for the advice, I found that rpm -e worked fine.  My installation 
appears clean now without any orphans or missing dependencies.

Jim



Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Jim Duda wrote:
>> I did an FC6 to FC7 upgrade via yum recently.  The "cleanup" portion
>> of the upgrade crashed.  I learned from this list to use
>> package-cleanup --orphans to find all the odd balls.
>>
>> I've cleaned up most things, but I'm struggling with a few.  For
>> example, libdvdread still comes from fc6 insted of fc7.
> 
> This is caused by the atrpms repo having a newer libdvdread package
> for FC6 than the fedora repo has for F7. (0.9.7-4.fc6.at >
> 0.9.7-2.fc7)
> 
>> If I attempt to remove libdvdread, dozens of packages will get
>> removed.  I can certainly reinstall them, but, I'm wondering if
>> there is another package-cleanup trick I can use to resolve some of
>> these issues.
> 
> I can think of a few ways (disclaimer: I haven't had my morning sugar
> intake yet).  You could use rpm -e --nodeps libdvdread to erase the
> libdvdread package without touching any dependencies.  Then yum
> install libdvdread to bring it back.
> 
> Or, you could use the yum-allowdowngrade plugin which adds an
> --allow-downgrade option to yum.  Then you could try to install the
> "older" libdvdread using yum --allow-downgrade libdvdread-0.9.7-2.fc7
> 
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