On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:44 -0500, Nat Gross wrote: > On 1/24/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Any of those may work *too* well. Be sure to eyeball the list of > > proposed deletions. > > > > On the other tentacle, some packages have "fc3", others "FC3", and I > > don't know if yum or rpm is case sensitive. On yet another tentacle, > > this does not handle the case of duplicate RPMs that do not have the > > Fedora version in the file name. > Woa! Listen to this! I now tried (per your input) lowercase fc3. And > what a list I got! > I need the eyeballs of many here before I hit 'y' on yum. (This > machine is now primarily a databse server, and I dont mind the > cleanup. But the FC4 (thats a 4) dependencies worry me. Here goes: > ========================================================= > ..... > --> Running transaction check > > Dependencies Resolved > > ============================================================================= > Package Arch Version Repository Size > ============================================================================= > Removing: > iptstate i386 1.4-1.1.fc3.rf installed 50 k > nmap i386 2:3.93-0.1.fc3.rf installed 2.6 M > nmap-frontend i386 2:3.93-0.1.fc3.rf installed 78 k > nscd i386 2.3.6-0.fc3.1 installed 82 k > perl-Digest-SHA1 i386 2.10-1.1.fc3.rf installed 100 k > redhat-artwork i386 0.124-1.0.fc3.kde installed 5.2 M > rhythmbox i386 0.8.8-2.1.fc3.rf installed 3.4 M > rsync i386 2.6.6-1.1.fc3.rf installed 506 k > sarg i386 2.0.5-2.fc3.mack installed 438 k > speex i386 1.0.5-1.1.fc3.rf installed 304 k > syslinux i386 3.11-1.1.fc3.rf installed 1.1 M The above are all from third-party repositories (rpmforge and kde-redhat I think), and some of them replaced packages included in Fedora Core, which is why the list of dependencies below almost certainly includes lots of stuff you actually want. > Removing for dependencies: > HelixPlayer i386 1:1.0.6-1.fc4.2 installed 9.0 M > NetworkManager-gnome i386 0.5.1-1.FC4.4 installed 294 k > arts i386 8:1.5.0-1.3.fc4.kde installed 4.3 M > control-center i386 1:2.10.1-6 installed 6.6 M > dbus-qt i386 0.33-3.2.fc4.kde installed 64 k > eel2 i386 2.10.0-2 installed 1.2 M > file-roller i386 2.10.0-1 installed 3.2 M > firstboot noarch 1.3.42-1 installed 800 k > gdm i386 1:2.6.0.8-16 installed 7.9 M > gedit i386 1:2.10.2-4 installed 12 M > gnome-applets i386 1:2.10.1-9 installed 28 M > gnome-desktop i386 2.10.0-5 installed 1.3 M > gnome-media i386 2.10.2-4 installed 5.0 M > gnome-netstatus i386 2.10.0-4 installed 909 k > gnome-panel i386 2.10.1-10.2 installed 8.4 M > gnome-pilot i386 2.0.13-2 installed 1.7 M > gnome-pilot-conduits i386 2.0.13-1 installed 394 k > gnome-session i386 2.10.0-2 installed 1.2 M > gnome-utils i386 1:2.10.0-4 installed 13 M > gnome-volume-manager i386 1.3.1-1 installed 737 k > gstreamer-plugins i386 0.8.8-9 installed 3.6 M > k3b i386 0.12.10-0.1.fc4.kde installed 10 M > kdeadmin i386 7:3.5.0-1.0.fc4.1 installed 4.2 M > kdeartwork i386 3.5.0-1.0.fc4.kde installed 8.8 M > kdebase i386 6:3.5.0-1.2.fc4.kde installed 53 M > kdelibs i386 6:3.5.0-4.2.fc4.kde installed 43 M > kdenetwork i386 7:3.5.0-1.3.fc4.kde installed 26 M > kdeutils i386 6:3.5.0-2.0.fc4.kde installed 9.1 M > libgail-gnome i386 1.1.0-5 installed 59 k > metacity i386 2.10.3-1 installed 8.5 M > mkbootdisk i386 1.5.2-5 installed 6.9 k > nautilus i386 2.10.0-4 installed 11 M > nautilus-cd-burner i386 2.10.0-2 installed 896 k > nss_ldap i386 234-4 installed 2.7 M > openh323 i386 1.15.6-1.FC4 installed 25 M > perl-Digest-HMAC noarch 1.01-14 installed 11 k > perl-Net-DNS i386 0.49-2 installed 401 k > pinentry-qt i386 0.7.1-4 installed 126 k > qt i386 1:3.3.5-11.1.fc4.kde installed > 8.9 M > redhat-lsb i386 1.3-10 installed 17 k > spamassassin i386 3.0.4-2.fc4 installed 1.8 M > system-config-display noarch 1.0.29-1 installed 610 k > tsclient i386 0.132-6 installed 411 k > xine-lib i386 1.1.0-1.2.fc4 installed 11 M I would suggest that you updated your yum configuration to include the "fc4" versions of the third-party repositories you use, then do a "yum update". That should replace most of the "fc3" packages with "fc4" versions. Paul.