yum updating itself first?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:07:26 +0000, Will Woods wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:37 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:32 -0500, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is this a packaging error on Livna's part or some new policy I missed?
> > > 
> > 
> > it was a yum bug and it is fixed in yum 3.2.8 which is out in
> > updates. :)
> 
> We've probably talked about this before but.. how hard would it be to
> change yum to update itself (and its deps) before attempting the rest of
> the transaction, for simple updates? 
> 
> There've been a lot of bugs lately where "update yum before updating
> everything else" was the solution. Seems like that would be the Right
> Thing To Do in general.

"yum -y update" prior to "yum install ..." also fixes many dependency
problems.