Hi Bruno and Craig, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:11:21 +0200, > suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Just wanted a clarification on that statement. I thought the safer way >> was to disable all the community repositories before using something >> like yum upgrade or preupgrade. That way any hidden packaging bug in >> community packages don't come in the way of the distro upgrade. After >> the upgrade is finished, all one has to do is enable the repos again >> and do a simple yum update, followed by a distro-sync with all repos >> enabled. Could you clarify why you think upgrading with them enabled >> is better? > > Because you won't allow upgrades of the external packages, and by blocking > those updates you can pin Fedora packages they are dependent on. I thought yum doesn't do these kind of reverse dependency checks (the reason remove-with-leaves is not reliable)? Or are you talking about situations when an external package has a hard dependency like this: external-1.00 requires = fedora-pkg1-1.00 instead of external-1.00 requires >= fedora-pkg1-1.00? However it seems to me I might have misunderstood how dependencies work with yum/rpm. In my understanding, all packages an external package depends on is pulled in while installation. During an update such a pulled in package can be updated without the external package needing an update as long as it requires the dependency with a >= fedora-pkg-version. Is this a correct understanding? Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
