WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:28, Gene Heskett wrote:

> >Usually I just do: "yum update" and if the list it shows includes
> > yum or rpm I cancel and just get those first, then repeat for the
> > rest of the packages.
> >
> 
> Chuckle, seems like the ideal way to do it, but when the package list 
> is longer than the shells scrollback??????

The worst that will happen if you say
yum update rpm yum
as a separate first step is that you waste some time while it
tells you that you already have the latest versions.

> Also if yum destroys itself, at least the rest of the system is 
> spared. :(  Don't laugh Mike, its done that here 6 times on 2 
> different machines and installs now.

Sometimes I've been able to 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' to
fix a yum-induced problem and sometimes I've had to do the
opposite.

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  Les Mikesell
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