Seth, Thanks. Since yum has 2 modes, install and update , I just think they should do the logical think. Shoot RedHat had to add the -F option to rpm so that people did not install things that they did not mean to. -connie On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 15:32, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > > I've of course been using update for install as well, but Connie's > > arguments make sense to me. After all, install might well be a > > deliberate choice distinct from update, especially if update uses > > wildcard rules on both ends and only updates packages that BOTH match > > already installed packages AND are available. One could add a "refresh" > > command that does what she likes, although it makes as much sense to > > make install mean INSTALL and update mean UPDATE. > > I'm prone to agree with that - the easy thing I could do is have yum > update dtrt - just update. I don't think added a refresh does anything > but confuse what update does :) > > so I'd be prone to change the comparison list for update > > right now yum update pkg* compares the pkgs to the list of available > pkgs. > > I could have it compare the packages to just the list of update-able > pkgs. so then yum update would never install something unless it was a > dependency requirement. > > That would break the similarity to rpm's commands - but it might be more > logical. > > -sv > > >
