On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:23:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:22:37 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth wrote: [....] >> Do you really mean upGRADE?? unless I'm very deeply >> mistaken, I have not used that, ever, on any machine. (I've done a lot >> of upgrading, but always with media, under anaconda on the media.) > > They are the same with current configuration defaults. > > See "man yum". Look up the "update" and "upgrade" commands and also the > "--obsoletes" option, which is relevant here. Notice that /etc/yum.conf > defaults to obsoletes=1 (i.e. this setting is enabled by default). > > Don't be afraid. This command does NOT (!) do an automatic upgrade of > Fedora to another Fedora release in spite of some people spreading FUD > like that. ;) I didn't hear it; I just failed to catch the changes, and took for granted that the two were still different. Iow, my bad, not some fudster's. <sigh> Given that the two are now the same, I must be OK, since I've kept on, with that machine as well as the rest, doing my routine updating procedure every day or two -- right? So the next thing, afaict, is to go through the orphan list, eliminate apps I've installed outside yum and the repos, such as Opera, and start removing the others, one at a time, with "yum remove" -- right? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
