On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 06:43 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:19:39 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Was my meaning too hard to understand? The previous poster is > > replying to my comment about using fedup followed by yum update. > > It's entirely logical to ask what he means by "safer". > > apologies was in bed. > > > > > I'm still wondering what "nvr" means. > > > > poc > > > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch09s03.html > Naming the Package > The most important part of the package description is the NVR, or > Name-Version-Release information, because this information is so > crucial for the RPM system to compare versions and track > dependencies. > > > Which means that Fedora N (17) can have a greater version, > that Fedora N+1 (i8) . yum update gets caught as it will keep > the higher version (the wrong one) > But yum distro-sync will clean up those accidental fubars. OK, got it. Thanks for the explanation, but it might have been clearer to be more explicit in the first place. I'm not sure how many of us would know what NVR means at the drop of a hat. Google doesn't mention this interpretation in its first couple of screens. Even a specialist site such as http://www.acronymgeek.com/NVR (which gives 90 possible decodings of NVR), doesn't have this one. Anyway, let's just leave it at that. In my initial response to the OP I missed the fact that we were talking about an ISO install, which makes all the difference. poc -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
