On Friday, March 20 2009, Gerry Reno said:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:03 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>> The need to make sure that you update rpm or yum before you do 'yum
>>> update' has happened before and I'm sure this isn't the last time
>>> that it will happen either. It just makes sense for a packager to
>>> see if there is an update to itself first. Update itself and THEN do
>>> the updates for everything else.
>>
>> That's your opinion. The opinion of the people writing the update tools
>> and preparing the repos and living through such "needs" and really
>> understanding what is actually going on don't share that opinion.
>
> What is the matter with yum doing something like this?
>
> if updated yum or updated rpm is available:
> if updated yum is available:
> update yum
> yum_is_new = true
> if updated rpm is available:
> update rpm
> if yum_is_new:
> sys.execv("/usr/bin/yum", sys.argv) # replace current process
> with updated yum
New yum may depend on new python, new glibc, etc and thus 'update yum'
may essentially be 'update everything'
Jeremy
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