On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 13:46 +1300, Morgan Read wrote: > Hi Folks > > My issue no doubt relates to my methodology... > > I've just moved from f8 to f10. Figured that I'd take a list of all > my installed RPMs and update to my that list once I'd installed f10 to > return to my previous state - more or less. > > man yum says for yum update "... If no package matches the given > package name(s), they are assumed to be a shell glob and any matches > are then installed." This is a documentation error and I'll fix it now. If you say: yum update foo and you don't have foo installed and foo doesn't obsolete anything you have installed then foo will NOT be installed. This allows a user to run: yum update x* and not accidentally get an arseload of -devel pkgs installed or whatnot. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
