coreutils is installed, cannot su -, and cannot add user still running as root

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 7 16:57:01 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:49 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 17:17:41 +0100,
>   Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 07/04/2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > A suggestion (not able to try myself as I no longer have an F7 machine
> > to try) is, make sure you use "upgrade" rather than "update" as the
> > yum command. I usually attempt to upgrade yum first when doing this
> > sort of thing, but that will probably pull in updates to python and
> > various libraries anyway, and before you know it you'll be upgrading
> > half the system anyway :o)).
> 
> If you set obsoletes=1 flag in /etc/yum.conf you will always get that
> (upgrade versus update) behavior. I have heard the claim that that flag is set
> by default with Fedora installs, but I am not sure if that is true or when it
> might have become true.
> You probably always want that behavior because even updates within a major
> version can obsolete things.

yes, obsoletes=1  has been the default in the code for a
looooooooooooong time.

-sv





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