On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Gene C. wrote: > > > I have seen people asking if it OK to just update (or upgrade) their running > > FC-1 test3 to the official FC-1. As RedHat have said numerous times, this is > > "not supported". It turns out that the ntptrace problem discussed in other > > messages demonstrate why this update/upgrade is not a good idea. > > > > The test version included ntp-4.2.0. Before the final version of FC-1, it was > > decided to revert to a previous version of ntp (4.1.2) because of stability > > problems with 4.2.0. Now if you update/upgrade, the "older" 4.1.2 package > > will not replace the installed 4.2.0. > > > > Folks, please, do fresh installs and do not try and continue > > updating/upgrading. Save yourself some headaches. > > It would be nice though if apt-get dist-upgrade (or a simple apt pinning > config) would allow to upgrade _and_ downgrade to one giving version (for > all of the packages belonging to) a repository. > > For instance: > > apt-get dist-upgrade fedora > > would then level everything to fedora (and match all dependencies) for the > packages that fedora actually has. All other packages are kept (if > possible). 'yum list extras' is a neat way to check for packages that don't belong to any repository [listed in yum.conf]. It would be nice if it also had an option to do package versions check - to find which packages have version mismatch - wrt packages in the repositories. Satish
