Re: 4877 packages to update... Time to clean house?

On 11/16/19 3:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 19:10 -0700, stan via users wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:00:44 -0600 > > Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > > > > > Well, I don't just mean end user packages. I haven't done a fresh > > > install since at least Fedora 24 and before DNF leaf packages were not > > > automatically removed... > > > > You could look for old packages. > > > > dnf list installed | grep fc2[0-9] > > > > There should be quite a few after that many upgrades. > > However not all of them are outdated. Some packages retain an older > release number because they haven't changed. But if it's more than one release old, then that means it's currently failing to build. The mass rebuild should bump the release number on all packages. Those should all disappear soon though since the FTBFS packages are getting retired.