Re: Yet More Yum Woe

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:23:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:22:37 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth wrote:
[....]
Do you really mean upGRADE?? unless I'm very deeply
mistaken, I have not used that, ever, on any machine. (I've done a lot
of upgrading, but always with media, under anaconda on the media.)

They are the same with current configuration defaults.

See "man yum". Look up the "update" and "upgrade" commands and also the
"--obsoletes" option, which is relevant here. Notice that /etc/yum.conf
defaults to obsoletes=1 (i.e. this setting is enabled by default).

Don't be afraid. This command does NOT (!) do an automatic upgrade of
Fedora to another Fedora release in spite of some people spreading FUD
like that. ;)

I didn't hear it; I just failed to catch the changes, and took
for granted that the two were still different. Iow, my bad, not some
fudster's. <sigh>

Given that the two are now the same, I must be OK, since I've
kept on, with that machine as well as the rest, doing my routine updating
procedure every day or two -- right?

So the next thing, afaict, is to go through the orphan list,
eliminate apps I've installed outside yum and the repos, such as Opera,
and start removing the others, one at a time, with "yum remove" -- right?

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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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