Re: FC1 > FC3

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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:53:17 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 18:05 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Stephen Walton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:25 -0500, Peter Volsted wrote:
> > >
> > >>hi
> > >>
> > >> > Don Dupy wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Has anyone done an upgrade from FC1 > FC3 ?
> > >>
> > >>I did without any problems a month ago.
> > >
> > >
> > > A handy hint:  after an upgrade like this, do 'rpm -qa --last > rpmlist'
> > > and look at the bottom of the list.  You'll probably find a whole bunch
> > > of obsolete packages which you can safely remove.
> >
> > Also the start of /root/upgrade.log may have a list of packages that have
> > broken dependencies and should probably be removed (you probably won't get
> > this if you don't use any "unofficial" packages). It's always worth looking
> > through this file after an upgrade to look for mentions of changed
> > configuration files (.rpmnew or .rpmsave) that need looking at anyway.
> ----
> probably not a bad idea
> 
> I also liked the rpm -qa --last > rpmlist
> 
> The aid I previously used was
> 
> rpm -qa --qf "%{INSTALLTIME} %{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE}\n" | sort \
> -r > RPMS_by_Install_Time
> 
> Check for anything in the output file after "basesystem".  These are
> probably obsolete packages left from before the upgrade.  Blow them away
> (suggest using "yum remove <package>" or "apt-get remove <package>" to
> handle dependencies)
> 
> Craig
> 
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did you install FC3   without deleting FC1 before   installed it over FC1 ?
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