preupgrade F10

[Adam Miller]

Then why was I able to pull the new rpm without any other packages
when going from Alpha -> Current Rawhide?

-Adam

2009/3/20 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:48 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>
>> My perspective is from the user point of view.   If the user is
>> upgrading to a new release let's say and the process goes along for
>> quite a while and then decides to bomb out because the rpm version
>> needed to be newer then the user becomes confused.  The software should
>> take care of this.  So if any package in the whole update requires a
>> newer yum/rpm then I think yum should go do that first.
>
> Upgrading to a new release is precisely when this will fail.  The "new
> yum" and "new rpm" would require all the other new packages in order to
> be functional.  There is no way to use the new yum without the rest of
> the new stuff.
>
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