Still have fc9 packages after upgrade to Fedora 10

Doctor Who whodoctor at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 19:07:06 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Run `package-cleanup --orphans' to find packages no longer resident is
> enabled repositories.
>

This gives me the same output as 'yum list extras'




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