On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 13:03, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > Try yum upgrade instead.
>
> I thought 'upgrade' was a deprecated option. What does it buy that
> 'update' doesn't?
it is deprecated - upgrade includes obsoletes processing.
update doesn't.
Well, that's really complecated. I remember in the days that
there was a rawhide-release package, yum upgrade used to install
fedora-release and remove rawhide-release, and yum update the
other way... Would be nice that when yum shows what it's gonna
do and asks for yes/no, also show what it's going to remove.
And my experiences show that sometimes it needs manual handling.
And in this case of upgrade/update, poor users would appreciate
it if you mention in the manual the difference AND that upgrade
can save lifes sometimes...
behdad
-sv