leftover fc6 rpms after fedora 7 upgrade

[Robin Laing]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:17 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 19:48:40 -0600,
>>   Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>> After upgrading this computer from FC6 to Fedora 7 I see that I have several
>>> left-over FC6 rpms that didn't get replaced for some reason:
>> If you upgraded without using the everything repository some of these may
>> be things that were superceded in extras.
>>
>> You might want to get a list of all of the everything rpms and see which
>> of these aren't on that list.
> 
> Some packages weren't changed by F7 and the names will still contain
> ".fc6".  This is very clearly stated in the release notes, which should
> be mandatory reading by anyone installing (or upgrading to) F7.  I
> quote:
> 
> 8.5. Packages with ".fc6" Tag
> There have not been any major changes in the toolchain in Fedora 7.
> Therefore, some packages in Fedora 7 might retain ".fc6" in the release
> tag if they have been inherited from the previous release without any
> changes. Fedora maintainers have not rebuilt these packages for Fedora 7
> to avoid making end users download the packages for only a release tag
> change. This measure ensures that the robustness is not affected by any
> potential changes evoked by rebuilds. This naming of packages is merely
> cosmetic, and does not in any way affect the functionality of the
> software. 
> 
> Read the release notes.  Please!
> 
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Will these packages be in the F7 directories on the mirrors?  Or if we 
want to find these packages do we have to look at FC6 packages?

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