At 6:18 AM -0600 11/11/05, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:08:53PM -0800, Ed Swierk wrote: >> I just completed an upgrade from FC3 to FC4 using the FC4 CDs. >> >> What I'm left with can hardly be called an FC4 installation, since it >> left nearly 80 FC3 packages untouched, including kernel and glibc. >> >> My guess is that anaconda decided not to upgrade certain updated FC3 >> packages whose FC4 counterparts had lower version numbers. >> >> Have others run into this problem? I would like to help my colleagues >> avoid the same mess when they upgrade. >> >> --Ed >> >Would you expect an upograding program to upgrade to packages with a >lowere version number? When it is doing an OS install, yes. >You can't expect any upgrading system to know >that to go to a hoigher version of the distribution lower versions of >packages need to be installed. Sure, when it is installing an OS. Anaconda's /job/ is to install an OS. It should note all the packages needing downgrading and ask the user what to do. It should work to install an OS upgrade, or a downgrade, with equal facility, and not leave an inconsistent installation. Anaconda has a list of all the rpms it expects to install, and that's what should end up installed. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
