Re: when upgrading from FC4 to FC5 from the DVD what will happen to the Extra pakages?

["Ali Helmy" <alihelmy@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, i conclude that if I have a FC4 system and do an upgrade from the DVD to FC5, then yum update, my installed programs won't be "wiped-out" and they'd still work, right?

On 22/03/06, yonas abraham <yonas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Cornette wrote:
> yonas abraham wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know that the extra packages don't come with the FC5 DVD. so when I
>> choose upgrade option at inistall time,  how do the dependency get
>> resolved for the packages i had from FC4-extra? did it break them ?
>>
>>
>
> It probably left the programs depending on libs that are no longer on
> your system and were replaced upward in versions. Doing a yum update
> afterwards *should* bring the packages back to functionality.
>
> The maintainers/developers for Fedora-Extras tracked the development
> up to FC5 pretty much. They did an excellent job for packages that I
> use from the repository.
>
> Jim
>

Thanks Jim,

It did it. before yum update, I have seen several *FC4.rpm left in the
rpmdb. I did yum update and it updated with no problem.

thanks again

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