Yet More Yum Woe

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:23:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:22:37 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth wrote:
	[....] 
>> 	Do you really mean upGRADE?? unless I'm very deeply
>> mistaken, I have not used that, ever, on any machine. (I've done a lot
>> of upgrading, but always with media, under anaconda on the media.)
> 
> They are the same with current configuration defaults.
> 
> See "man yum". Look up the "update" and "upgrade" commands and also the
> "--obsoletes" option, which is relevant here. Notice that /etc/yum.conf
> defaults to obsoletes=1 (i.e. this setting is enabled by default).
> 
> Don't be afraid. This command does NOT (!) do an automatic upgrade of
> Fedora to another Fedora release in spite of some people spreading FUD
> like that. ;)

	I didn't hear it; I just failed to catch the changes, and took 
for granted that the two were still different. Iow, my bad, not some 
fudster's. <sigh>

	Given that the two are now the same, I must be OK, since I've 
kept on, with that machine as well as the rest, doing my routine updating 
procedure every day or two -- right?

	So the next thing, afaict, is to go through the orphan list, 
eliminate apps I've installed outside yum and the repos, such as Opera, 
and start removing the others, one at a time, with "yum remove" -- right?

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.