yum upgrade to FC2

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed May 19 17:48:43 UTC 2004



On Wed, 19 May 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Mi, den 19.05.2004 schrieb Elliot Lee um 18:57:
> 
> > If you used 'yum upgrade' instead of 'yum update' you wouldn't have to 
> > mess around with the extra package removes/installs.
> 
> > Elliot
> 
> Just a bit irritating then, when the manpage for yum states
> 
> * upgrade [package1] [package2] [...] *deprecated* this command may be
>        removed in the future.
> 
> and in a couple of previous postings here on the list that was
> emphasised too.
> 
> What is the current state of yum upgrade / update then?

I hope Seth fixes the man page. The option is depreciated - but not
the functionality.

'yum upgrade' is likely to be replaced by 'yum --obsoletes update' in the future..

Satish





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