On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:08 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I've just hit a curiosity related to Anaconda. I upgraded two machines > via Anaconda from FC4 to FC5 and only just now discovered that I still > have several FC4 kernel-devel packages on the upgraded boxes. Is this > a bug or intentional behavior? By default, anything starting with "kernel" is "rpm -i", not "rpm -U". In other words, they're "installed", not "updated". This also true of yum updates (see "man yum.conf" under the "installonlypkgs" section). > There was a discussion about this late in March; see the thread "slow > FC4 to FC5 upgrade" on or before 24 March, although I don't think > anyone considered this to be a bug. It isn't. It's a known thing and judged to be "good" by most. > I can't see any reason to retain the prior version's kernel-devel > packages if the kernels themselves are removed. They don't remove things that don't _have_ to be removed. Just do an "rpm -e" of the kernel-devels you don't want. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! Details at... - - uh, when, uh, the little hand is, uh, on the... Aw, NUTS! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
