leftover fc6 rpms after fedora 7 upgrade

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:44 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> 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 be things that were superceded in extras.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!
> > 
> 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?

That's not clear from the release notes, but I suspect they'll be in
the F7 repositories--copied over from the FC6 repos.  If they do rebuild
them, then they'll probably get the ".f7" (or is it ".fc7") tag and the
issue will be moot.  That's only an educated guess, by the way.

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