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Description of problem: I still have hal-libs installed (and orphaned) after a preupgrade from F15 to F16. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-libs-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64 udev-173-3.fc16.x86_64
In my opinion udev cannot obsolete hal-libs. udev does not provide the libraries, which might be needed by old rpms. You might want to use package-cleanup.
Hasn't hal-libs been retired in F16? Or are you thinking of third party packages?
Udev is not involved here, it can not obsolete or replace HAL, it does not provide anything similar what HAL did, it's just a kernel event source the tools now use directly. To sync your system with the current state of the distribution, you might want to (be careful) check out: yum distribution-synchronization
'yum distro-sync' only offers to downgrade packages where f15 nvr is higher than f16 nvr, here. It doesn't do anything with the 'package-cleanup --orphans' hits that come from retired packages. Crazy idea - maybe fedora-release should obsolete packages retired in that cycle?
assigning to component "distribution"
This has been requested at some points in the past, but has been rejected.
'yum distro-sync' says: "If you give the optional argument "full", then the command will also reinstall packages where the install checksum and the available checksum do not match. And remove old packages (can be used to sync. rpmdb versions)." Wouldn't that remove the no longer available packages?
*** Bug 824618 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #8) > *** Bug 824618 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** That doesn't look right.
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