On 3/16/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/16/06, indiejade : <indiejade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does yum work to update firefox? I have been trying, persistently, to > get > > my Fx install past 1.0.7 (the version that came w/Fedora Core 4, > > apparently). I think I'm going to need some serious help because there > is > > something obvious I'm missing (probably because I've been thinking too > much > > about it). When I had MSWindows on my computer, I could get the > updates, > > but FC4 seems to have some strange limits RE firefox updates. TY ahead > of > > time. -shawnee > > > Please don't hijack threads. > Please don't top post. > Both of these are considered bad form and/or rude on mailing lists. > > Yum will update to whatever is current in the repository you're using. > If your repo only has 1.0.7, that's all yum will give you. Yum is not > yet self-aware enough to seek out and build updated software. > > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety'' > Benjamin Franklin 1775 > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum I apologize. Sometimes I just start typing the message wherever the cursor lands when I hit "reply to thread". This depends upon email-clients - you're using gmail, as am I. Might I add that blatantly pointing this out and using the word "rude" is more of a hijack to any thread content than my quesiton was. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20060316/c5f5c02e/attachment.html
