Seth, I will test it today. Thanks for putting in this change so quickly. Connie Sieh Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:31, csieh wrote: > > Seth, > > > > I really wanted to upgrade to the new KDE. So I first said "yum update > > kde*". That did not work because it wanted "kdesupport" which is now > > obsoleted by "something else". So I tried "yum upgrade kde*" and it > > said there was nothing to do. All I want to do is upgrade to the new > > kde, but not to everything in the repository. I like to upgrade in > > steps vs the "all at once". I looked at the code yesterday a bit and > > started to play with it but decided asking you about it is a better > > thing to do. I guess I did not know why the "regular glob" was not > > allowed for the "yum upgrade" command. > > Connie, > Please test the latest daily for 1.0 and tell me if it works for you. I > did limited testing of the obsoletes and it seems to work as expected > for what I wanted ie: > > yum upgrade foo\* > > that will replace anything matching foo\* with the first item that > obsoletes it - if there are any. > otherwise it will update anything matching foo\* > > In that order - obsoletes happen first. > > -sv > > >
