[ATrpms-users] fc4 packages to fc6

[Philip R. Schaffner]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 08:27 +1100, Paul wrote:
> a yum update doesn't pick up any updates for these packages
> and a yum info picks up the fc4 version

Looks a like you have a bunch of "orphan" FC4 packages for which there
is no direct FC6 equivalent.

e.g. - on my FC6 system:

# yum --enable \*rpm\* search libFLAC
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Setting up repositories
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atrpms-testing            100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
atrpms-bleeding           100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
core                      100% |=========================| 1.3 kB    00:00
jpackage-generic          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
flash                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
local                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
jpackage-fc               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
jpackage-generic-nonfree  100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
gstreamer                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
rpmforge                  100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
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primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.7 MB    00:00
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No Matches found
# locate libFLAC
/usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.5
/usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/libFLAC.so.7
/usr/lib/libFLAC.so.7.0.0
# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.5
flac-1.1.2-27.i386

In an ideal world all the orphan packages would have been obsoleted or
upgraded.  There may well be others left that are not so nicely flagged.
Run "rpm -qa --last" (may want to redirect to a file or pipe to less)
and inspect the output for packages that predate FC6.  I'd try "yum
remove ..." or "rpm -e ...".  This is one reason why a fresh install is
generally recommended over an upgrade.

Phil