On Sun, 2021-04-11 at 20:46 +0000, home user wrote: > Do you mean that all the other software is the same as the newest? > If I do a weekly patch (dnf upgrade), and that patch includes patches > to vim or firefox, and then the next day I boot into one of the older > entries in the grub menu, I should get the newer firefox and vim and > the the older? When you do an update, almost all software is updated by replacing the old with the new (whether that's done from a patch that just updates the bits that needs updating, or a whole package that does everything). There are a few things, such as the kernel, where an update installs the new version in addition to the old version. At boot time, you get to pick which kernel you'll boot from. This will also include drivers built into the kernel. What doesn't change, though, are user settings. Any program that stores its settings in your homespace is unaffected by RPM updates. Your configurations carry over. However, some applications change their configuration format over time, and when the application is run, it may update its own configuration files. It's similar with system configuration modifications you've made that are stored in /etc. This is why (unlike windows) reinstalling something that isn't working right rarely makes anything different in Linux. If the problem was due to a bad configuration, you're back at square one. The only time reinstalling ought to make any difference is when there's something wrong with one of the installed files (e.g. corruption, or you've erroneously removed an ancillary file). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 18:28:22 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
