Confession of error...

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:24 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 1:30 AM -0400 4/30/07, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> >On 4/29/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> >> (After
> >> install, do "yum update yum", then "yum update", then "yum grouplist", then
> >> "yum groupinstall <available groups you want>".)
> >
> >Don't upgrade yum separately first. While it may seem like a good
> >strategy, I got burned by doing so in this exact situation. The yum
> >got updated but the various python libs it depened on did not. This
> >left a non runnable yum and a dependency hell to sort out manually.
>  ...
> 
> This cannot happen with yum.  OK, it can, but it would be a very very
> serious bug if it did, either in yum or in the packages themselves, and
> likely would be reported many times by more diligent people and fixed very
> quickly.
> 
> So update yum first, in case the initial version had a bug that was fixed.

That's why I like smart. It works really well. Ric