On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 16:32 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 08:48 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 17:07 +0900, Naoki wrote: > > > I missed the thread, what happened to 'upgrade' ? > > > > yum --obsoletes update > > I honestly fail to understand why this isn't the default. > > Yum has improved _definitely_a_lot_, it works much better on mirrors > (and in the past it used to fail horribly and constantly due to mirror > misbehaviour). > > But IMHO it places a lot of decisions on the enduser, failing in a scary > way when bad things happen. > osboletes can be what you set if you want. just set obsoletes=1 in the [main] section of your yum.conf however obsoletes should not be the default b/c of circular obsoletes. ie: foo obsoletes bar baz osboletes foo bar obsoletes baz and if you don't think that happens, look around, it definitely does. -sv
