On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 12:41:34AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: (Now that I've finished writing this message, I realize that most of this probably doesn't affect a yum/apt/up2date upgrade from RH9 or FC1, or from RH 8.0 for that matter. It's important stuff to pay attention to when upgrading from RH 7.3 or earlier, however, particularly the stuff that anaconda pulls in when it sees gnome-core.) Let's see... (Some of these may be handled automatically by yum or apt, or up2date for that matter if you use it rather than yum or apt, but I'll mention them anyway.) If you have any linuxconf packages installed, it removes those. (Specifically, it removes linuxconf, linuxconf-devel, and gnome-linuxconf.) If you have XFree86 on the system, it makes sure to install xterm (since xterm was split into a package of its own at some point). If up2date-gnome is installed, it installs rhn-applet as well. (According to a comment in upgrade.py: "if they have up2date-gnome, they probably want the applet now too since it works in both gnome and kde") If gnome-core is installed, anaconda makes sure that these other packages also get installed (this is needed for a complete GNOME 1.x to GNOME 2.x upgrade): gnome-terminal gnome-desktop gnome-session gnome-panel metacity file-roller yelp nautilus (This last one is *definitely* not done automatically by up2date. I don't know about yum or apt.) Oh, yeah, anaconda also warns you if you're upgrading from anything earlier than Red Hat 6.2, or if you're upgrading from a system that has Helix/Ximian GNOME installed. This is all the stuff that popped out at me when I looked at the (rawhide) anaconda source code. (I think anaconda from FC 1 was no different in this regard, though.) There could be other stuff that I missed, nonetheless... -Barry K. Nathan <barryn(a)pobox.com&gt;