On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Rick Stevens <ricks(a)alldigital.com> wrote:
On 04/19/2016 01:47 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2016 19:58, "Rick Stevens" <ricks(a)alldigital.com
> <mailto:ricks@alldigital.com>> wrote:
>> On 04/19/2016 10:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 04/19/2016 01:49 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What term will now be used for the passage to Fedora-24?
>>>
>>> Update.
>>
>> Didn't the rest of this thread say "update" is deprecated in favor
of
>> "upgrade"?
>>
>> Damn, I wish the developers would leave this alone! "Update" has
always
>> meant "update to the latest release of software on the _current_ OS".
>> "Upgrade" has always meant "upgrade to the _next_ OS".
They're two
>> entirely different things.
"yum update" and "yum upgrade" have always meant the same thing.
"yum upgrade" = "yum --obsoletes update"
or
"yum upgrade" = "yum update" with "obsoletes=1" in yum.conf;
but
"obsoletes=1" is the default
> And actually it's not even that on Debian where update grabs
metadata
> and upgrade actually upgrades packages.
"apt-get update" is the same as "yum|dnf makecache" but with yum|dnf
you have to remember to use "yum|dnf -C update" (given dnf's new cache
behavior, it seems to work from cache without "-C").