Issue after updating a Fedora 11 system to Fedora 12

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 22 Dec 2009 at 18:11, Derek Cramer wrote:

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> 2009/12/22 hackob - <hackob at hackob.me>:
> > 2009/12/22 Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>:
> >> I have a server that I just upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 using the
> >> net CD and the DVD image on another server.
> >>
> >> After the initial update, there were 170 FC11 files still listed in the rpm -qa.
> >>
> >> I then ran a yum update -y and most of the packages were updated.
> >>
> >> curl-7.19.7-3.fc11.i586
> >> libvolume_id-141-7.fc11.i586
> >> dbus-cxx-0.5.0-1.fc11.i586
> >> dbus-cxx-tools-0.5.0-1.fc11.i586
> >> libcurl-7.19.7-3.fc11.i586
> >> mod_dnssd-0.6-2.fc11.i586
> >> libcurl-devel-7.19.7-3.fc11.i586
> >> iw-0.9.17-3.fc11.i586
> >> gst-mixer-2.26.0-3.fc11.i586
> >> dbus-cxx-doc-0.5.0-1.fc11.noarch
> >> dbus-cxx-devel-0.5.0-1.fc11.i586
> >>
> >> As it turns out, the fc11 version of some of these files are newer than the
> >> fc12 version, so yum gives an error that the fc11 version is newer.
> >>
> >> I was trying to remove and update at the same time, but this failed with the
> >> newer error message. I then looked at removing the fc11 files first, but that
> >> results in it wanting to delete lots of other files.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to update these files, or just to wait for newer fc12 versions.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> 
> What I did was use "package-cleanup --orphans" to identify the F11
> packages that were not upgraded and then used "yum downgrade <package
> names>" to get the F12 versions installed.
> 

When I run the yum downgrade it comes back with Nothing to Do?

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> Derek
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