leftover fc6 rpms after fedora 7 upgrade

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 22:39:36 UTC 2007


On 01/06/07, Rick Stevens wrote:

> > Will these packages be in the F7 directories on the mirrors?

Yes.

> >  Or if we
> > want to find these packages do we have to look at FC6 packages?

No, not the fc6 repositories.

> 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.

At the beginning of a Fedora development cycle, the repository starts
with copies of all the packages from the previous distribution
release. F7 started with copies from FC6, later merged with FE6.




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