On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 01:12:48AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 15:51:59 +0100,
Luciano Rocha <strange(a)nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:34:28AM -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
> > Is there an rpm command I can run to clean up the old rpm files on my system?
> >
> > Something like rpm -qa | grep fc4 -exec rpm -e {} \;
>
> rpm -qa | grep fc4 | xargs rpm -e
>
> Better yet:
> rpm -qa | grep fc4 | yum remove
Searching for release extensions isn't a good way to do this. Not everything
gets rebuilt every release. You really want to look for orphans, which
package-cleanup will do for you. (An even within the orphans you will want
to check for manually added stuff.)
That is usually true, but not in this specific instance. Between fc4 and
fc8, both gcc and glibc have been "major" upgraded.
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