On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote: > Hey all, > I was doing some thinking about upgrade vs update and the confusion > around those two. > > to clarify: > yum update - only updates packages you have installed does not include > or consult an obsoletes lists > yum upgrade - does updates + obsoletes > > I was thinking maybe dump upgrade as an option entirely and include a > new option - like -o/--obsoletes to include the obsoletes lookup. > > also have it matched with an obsoletes=1 in the config file. > > That would remove one source of confusion and let people who want to use > obsoletes, always, just make a yum.conf modification and not modify > their yum.cron job. > Sounds like a keen idea. It'd also be nice if you left the upgrade action in yum and have it emit a warning that the feature is going away soon and the user should read the manpage :) -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
