mostafa.afgani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,
Last friday I upgraded a fully updates FC4 box to FC5. The upgrade was
flawless. While looking for leftover FC4 packages, I came across:
[afgani@cpc155 ~]$ rpm -qa --qf %-30{NAME}' '%{DISTRIBUTION}'\n' | grep
"(FC-4)"$
logwatch Red Hat (FC-4)
tzdata Red Hat (FC-4)
and a few others (kernel_FC4, hal.fc4, gnome-kerberos,
system-config-mouse) which were easily removed.
Comparing version numbers:
[afgani@cpc155 ~]$ sudo yum list tzdata logwatch
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [2/3]
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras [3/3]
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
logwatch.noarch 7.2.1-1.fc4 installed
tzdata.noarch 2006b-2.fc4 installed
Available Packages
logwatch.noarch 7.1-8 core
tzdata.noarch 2006b-1 core
it seems that fc4 contains updated packages while fc5 does not. These
updates were released on March 22nd but the fc5 packages are dated March
6th. I searched the updates and testing branches of fc5 but it looks like
updates to those packages are not even in testing yet. I then looked
through the development branch and saw a 7.3 version of logwatch; but the
version of tzdata was still 2006b-1 (i.e. even older than the fc4 update)
So, what shall do at this point? Should I just leave the newer versions?
Or, should I grab the fc5 rpms and do "rpm --oldpackage --replacefiles" ?
I'd be inclined to leave them as-is but bugzilla them. The FC5 versions
*should* always appear to be "newer" than the FC4 versions. There should
be updates for FC5 to bring them to at least the same level as FC4.
Paul.
