On Sunday, May 17 2009, Seth Vidal said: > On Sun, 17 May 2009, David Timms wrote: >> On the yum list a question was asked which intrigued me: >> Why can anaconda manage to upgrade a system, when yum upgrade can't. >> >> The postulation was that anaconda is cheating (ie running --nodeps >> installs). This would allow it to complete an upgrade where >> dependencies lead to unavailable packages that are not on the dvd, but >> are in the complete Fedora, and or non- fedora repositories, that are >> not available at upgrade time. >> >> Is that why it can work ? >> Or what are essential differences between an anaconda upgrade and yum >> upgrade ? > > anaconda is also running outside of the system you're trying to update - > it doesn't have to worry about making its own environment entirely > unusable. So it can do things like --nodeps w/o a concern for not being > able to complete the transaction. It also means that we can do things like use a newer version of rpm or a new kernel with ext4 support to (eventually) allow for migrating from ext3->ext4 Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
