On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 04:54, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <1074841169.19585.27.camel@binkley>, > seth vidal <yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > update = get new versions of what is installed and any new dependencies > > you need > > > > upgrade = get new versions of what is installed -but look to see what > > packages obsolete what you have installed and get them. > > So why is "upgrade" deprecated in the man page, and threatened with > future removal? It seems like pretty important functionality to me, > when used correctly. I successfully used it to upgrade a RH9 box to FC1. My plan is to add in an option to let it say --obsoletes. so you can run: yum --obsoletes=[0|1] update and we get rid of the confusion about update and upgrade. :) does that make sense to you? -sv
