Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour
Mark
markg85 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 14:30:43 UTC 2008
2008/4/1, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> Mark wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I was just about to install gimp or so i thought.
> > I didn't look in Applications -> Graphics to see if gimp was already
> > there. This time it was but i found that out after i did: yum -y
> > install gimp.
> >
> > Now for the feature or bug in yum.
> > When you have a application installed and then yum: yum -y install
> > gimp then yum first needs to download updates of it's repository.. do
> > something else and than it simply tells me: Package
> > 2:gimp-2.4.5-1.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version
> >
> > But wouldn't it be best if yum FIRST checks if the package is already
> > installed and if it is then ask the user to check for updates?
>
>
> Unless yum checks the repository, it can't tell you whether the version
> you have is the latest or not. I am not sure I understand your
> suggestion. Can you explain further?
>
> Rahul
Well. let yum first check if the package you try to install is already
installed (version independent) than let yum (if it finds a installed
package) ask the user if he/she wants to check for updates of that
package.
Pseudo code style..
yum list install gimp [1]
if yum found gimp
- ask to look for updates and install them if the user answers "y"
else
- install gimp
[1] I noticed that yum wants to update his local repository here as
well. I think it's better to get that behaviour out yum and only
update it's local repo if there is none available or a update command
is given or a install command is given.
Hope that explains it better.
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