On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 19:22, shawnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Why would this option be deprecated? > > It's only deprecated as a command line option -- there has been much > confusion between the semantics of upgrade vs update. The functionality > will remain, it'll just work differently (iirc, you'll just tell yum > whether to mind the obsoletes or not. Currently, update ignores > obsoletes, while upgrade honors them). To be slightly more specific, instead of doing yum upgrade you'll do yum update --with-obsoletes Possibly the exact syntax or option name will be different, but that's the basic idea. -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
