Unfortunate articles

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Aug 23 01:21:50 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:13 +0800, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> Well slightly off topic but over the weekend I managed to upgrade my FC3
> -> FC4 box without any major hassles.  Just transferring old configs to
> new configs.  So to say that yum doesn't have a dist-upgrade option
> would definately be incorrect imo.
> 

I disagree. A lot.

The problem is that yum can't run outside of your installed system.
There are MANY things yum can't do b/c it cannot know what state your
system and/or the hw is in.

-sv





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