On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:37:25PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 23:08:55 -0400, > "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Isn't that what RPM deps already do? > > I'll test it out. I thought that dependencies got updated, but it might be > that I was just seeing cases where the minimums were upped. I'll test it > out and see how it really works. Usually the only time where I am trying > to update only some stuff is when doing yum upgrades and working around > issues by trying to update only some stuff. But that is the case where > minimums for packages in the new release are likely to require dependencies > from the new release. I think the cardinal rule we'd document for people updating is, "Run 'yum update foo' to get the latest foo, and be prepared to get a lot of other stuff in some cases. Don't fight it, fighting makes it worse." ;-) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
