ma, 2007-12-17 kello 00:18 -0800, Kam Leo kirjoitti: > On Dec 16, 2007 10:43 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Dec 16, 2007 10:38 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Dec 16, 2007 9:54 PM, david walcroft <d_j_w46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snip> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Kam there are to many FC7 (60+) for me to handle,these must be > > > > left overs from my FC7 - FC8 dvd upgrade. > > > > > > Redirect the output to a file, e.g. "rpm -qa | grep f7 > f7leftovers". > > > Do it for fc6 as well. You can use an editor to copy and paste the > > > unwanted package(s) to a terminal window or learn to use some neat > > ^ > > rpm -e pasted-unwanted-package-name > > > > Just to clarify what I meant. > > > > > > > unix utilities such as sed or awk to operate directly on the file > > > contents. > > > > > > > > > > Livna repos have '/$releasever/$basearch' in them > > > > > > That's good but you need to verify that the URL is valid. > > > > > > > david > > > > > > > Antti Huhtala brought to my attention an error in the above example. > It should be "rpm -qa | grep fc7 > f7leftovers". The Fedora packagers > are still using fc in the suffix, even for Fedora 8. > > > Thank you, Antti. > You're welcome, Kam. > Additionally, I took a quick peak at the F7 and F8 Everything > repositories. Some fc6 packages are included as part of the F7 > distribution. For F8 a mix of fc6 and fc7 packages are also part of > the distribution. What a packaging mess! > > Well, David. Please excuse my butting in. It seems that the Fedora > packagers have thrown a spanner into the works. Now, it's nearly > impossible to find and clean up left over packages using just the > distro suffix. Unless rpm or any of the package managers shows a > conflict leave the older package(s) alone. > IMHO, the last sentence is good advice, indeed. For example, when I upgraded from FC6 to F7 I had to remove only <10 older packages due to conflicts. These conflicts appeared one or two at a time along with pup or yum updates within 2-3 months of the upgrade. No big deal... BR, Antti
