Still have fc9 packages after upgrade to Fedora 10

Doctor Who whodoctor at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 18:21:07 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:02 PM, M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Doctor Who wrote:
>
>> After upgrading to Fedora 10 final from one of the earlier RCs using
>> preupgrade, I noticed after running 'rpm -qa | grep fc9 \ wc -l' that
>> i have 366 fc9 packages still installed.  I've run yumex,
>> 'yum-complete-transaction', and 'package-cleanup --cleandupes' but
>> these packages are not updating.
>>
>> I only have Fedora 10 repos enabled.
>>
>> Any idea on why and how to get these packages updated?
>
> It is normal to have some packages with fc9 versions as part of Fedora 10
> because some are distributed as part of Fedora 10, presumably because they
> haven't been updated since the last Fedora 9 version. You can check for
> packages that aren't available from your current set of repositories by
> running
> yum list extras
>
>        Michael Young
>

Thanks.  'yum list extras' is nowhere near as exhaustive.  It shows
only 16 packages, nowhere near the 366 fc9 packages I have installed.
These include lots of xorg packages, yumex, yum-updatesd, dillo,
gnome-mount, etc.




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