Then why was I able to pull the new rpm without any other packages when going from Alpha -> Current Rawhide? -Adam 2009/3/20 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:48 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: >> >> My perspective is from the user point of view. If the user is >> upgrading to a new release let's say and the process goes along for >> quite a while and then decides to bomb out because the rpm version >> needed to be newer then the user becomes confused. The software should >> take care of this. So if any package in the whole update requires a >> newer yum/rpm then I think yum should go do that first. > > Upgrading to a new release is precisely when this will fail. The "new > yum" and "new rpm" would require all the other new packages in order to > be functional. There is no way to use the new yum without the rest of > the new stuff. > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
