On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/19/2016 01:47 PM, James Hogarth wrote: >> On 19 Apr 2016 19:58, "Rick Stevens" <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>> On 04/19/2016 10:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>>> On 04/19/2016 01:49 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What term will now be used for the passage to Fedora-24? >>>> >>>> Update. >>> >>> Didn't the rest of this thread say "update" is deprecated in favor of >>> "upgrade"? >>> >>> Damn, I wish the developers would leave this alone! "Update" has always >>> meant "update to the latest release of software on the _current_ OS". >>> "Upgrade" has always meant "upgrade to the _next_ OS". They're two >>> entirely different things. "yum update" and "yum upgrade" have always meant the same thing. "yum upgrade" = "yum --obsoletes update" or "yum upgrade" = "yum update" with "obsoletes=1" in yum.conf; but "obsoletes=1" is the default >> And actually it's not even that on Debian where update grabs metadata >> and upgrade actually upgrades packages. "apt-get update" is the same as "yum|dnf makecache" but with yum|dnf you have to remember to use "yum|dnf -C update" (given dnf's new cache behavior, it seems to work from cache without "-C"). -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
