On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:50:06AM -0500, seth vidal alleged: > 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? I know it's just my opinion, but I prefer the seperate commands. Updating a few packages and upgrading the entire distro are two very different actions, and should be reflected as such by the differing commands. The confusion is just a documentation problem. Maybe change the command to borrow from debian's terminology and use "distupgrade". -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20040123/55e336d8/attachment.bin
