Use rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name} %{vendor}\n" To see what packages are not from CentOS.
You can then either script the upgrade/downgrade or do it manually.
You can have a look a sample script here http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/centos-2/check_packages_centos2.sh
That is a RH72 -> CentOS-2 script but the same problem is addressed.
John.
Farkas Levente wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 13:39 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
Farkas Levente wrote:
hi, comps in rh9 is comps-9-0.20030313 while in the latest centos-3.4 it's comps-3.4centos.0-0.20050105 so the rh9 has higher version number which means this packages not upgraded during an upgrade to any version of centos. and yum also not upgrade this package. imho it's a bug. is there any way to find out what other packages is remain from some older rh version? yours.
ok. that's not the only package, there are dozens, just run: rpm -qa --queryformat "%-45{VENDOR}\t%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-SERIAL:%{SERIAL}\n"|egrep "Red Hat" just to mention a few: cpio, mktemp, tmpwatch, etc. it'd be useful to review all the rh9 packages and compare there version number to the latest centos version. eg: tcpdump-3.7.2-7.E3.2 (centos) is less then tcpdump-3.7.2-7.9.1 (rh9). this is not a serious problem since they are probably the same, but wouyld be useful to be consistent. yours.
This is an upstream issue ... and one of the reasons why RH doesn't officially support an upgrade from RH9 to RHEL3 ... since we rebuild the Source SRPMS, we inherit that problem.
We can't change the packages in question since they will then not track upstream after that.
If you have continued doing fedoralegacy updates after RH stopped supporting RH9, it will compound the problem.
The mailing list has many people who have upgraded to help in the process though :)
we already upgraded all of our servers when centos-3 released, but we just realized this problem. imho there are many server which are upgraded from rh8 (which was upgraded from rh8 etc). so this is a the problem of a lots of server. anyway i'll write a small script which force the upgrade in case of such packages and i'll post it here too. yours.