[ATrpms-users] F7 to F8 upgrade

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Nov 11, 2007 10:04 AM, Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl> wrote:

> On Sunday 11 November 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > I would check that yum fails in the same way. I fit does file a bug
> > against F8's yum, otherwise against F8's yumex.
>
> Yum does work correctly.
>
> I'm just not sure if it's just my systems or the current Fedora release
> which
> is bugging me.
>
> One of the issues I have is that on my x86_64 system I find a lot of fc7
> packages left and also on the F8 DVD I find fc7 packages (?!?). This is
> quite
> confusing and what is weird is that a yum update doesn't bring up any
> packages for upgrading. The repositories that are enabled are all Fedora
> 8,
> but in the "available" tab I even see some fc6 packages. This puzzles me
> quite a bit. I already cleaned yum's metadata but these packages stay
> available.
>
> I'm not sure if it's normal to have fc7 files on a fc8 DVD. Perhaps I
> downloaded a wrong image.
>
>
It is normal. They did not recompile everything yet. I have also some F7 and
a few FC6
packages.  You can mix them and they should be replaced as new updates come
up.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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