Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade....

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Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Fedora packages don't install anything in /opt, so it will be 
> untouched in an upgrade. 

Unless the files are part of a third-party RPM that is (recorded in the
RPM database as being) dependent on a particular version of a Fedora
Core package. In that case, the upgrade will update the old Fedora Core
package, and try to upgrade the third-party RPMs to a version that *can*
co-exist with the new Core package. If it can't find any upgraded RPMs,
it will remove them, to keep the RPM database consistent.

I don't know what happens if there is a new compat-* version of the old
Core package. I'd like to see it automatically installed to satisfy the
dependencies.

Hope this helps,

James.

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