On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 11:20, Axel Thimm wrote: > I just checked the report again, and it slipped to me that Peter used > 'yum update' instead of 'yum upgrade'. 'yum upgrade' does look into > obsoletes, while 'yum update' does not. > > So it is like comparing apt-get upgrade vs dist-upgrade, and yum's > behaviour invoked that way is correct (only replace same package with > newer versions, no inter-package comparisons). > > Personally I'd obsolete 'yum update' and 'apt-get upgrade' ;) Now I am confused. I thought I should use `yum upgrade` only when going from a release to another, say RH8.0 -> RH9? So is the only difference with update and upgrade that upgrade checks the obsoletes and update does not? I should use upgrade always instead of update? What harm is there to check obsoletes -- why does not update do it? Anyway, thanks for your help, `yum upgrade` solved my problems. Regards, Peter
