The yum man page says that if yum is invoked as
yum --obsoletes update
it will upgrade from older distro release to next higher
one (or I assume more recent release). To wit:
update If run without any packages, update will update every currently
installed package. If one or more packages are specified, Yum
will only update the listed packages. While updating packages,
yum will ensure that all dependencies are satisfied. If no
package matches the given package name(s), they are assumed to
be a shell glob and any matches are then installed.
If the --obsoletes flag is present yum will include package obsoletes in its
calculations - this makes it better for distro version changes, for example:
upgrading from somelinux 8.0 to somelinux 9.
However, when I invoke it, it says:
# yum --obsoletes update
atrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 4.7 MB 00:27
dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
skype 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
Is this caused by using repositories in addition to "fedora" and "updates" ?
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