[ATrpms-users] F7 to F8 upgrade

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:04:11PM +0100, Marcel Janssen 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.

In that case it's a yumex bug.

> 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.

That's a bad policy from Fedora: Not all packages are rebuilt during
the development cycle. There are no real benefits to this policy while
old packages may not build properly anymore (either failing at build
or runtime) and this goes unnoticed (actually old packages not
building do get noticed by a guy at Fedora doing full rebuilds).

> I'm not sure if it's normal to have fc7 files on a fc8 DVD. Perhaps I 
> downloaded a wrong image.

It's not good, but it is "normal". This policy started with F7 and is
still continued even though many people spoke against it. Maybe we're
lucky and it gets removed by F9 again.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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