You mean the man page is in error? It says:
If the --obsoletes flag is present yum will include package
obsoletes in its calculations - this makes it better for dis-
tro-version changes, for example: upgrading from somelinux 8.0
to somelinux 9.
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> From: pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx
> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:40:43 -0430
> Subject: Re: Using yum to upgrade from fc7 to fc8
>
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:49 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
>> 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).
>
> You assume wrongly. yum will update from one package version to another,
> but not automatically from one distro release to another. It can be
> persuaded to do so but you have to work at it, see:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>
> poc
>
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