Then why was I able to pull the new rpm without any other packages
when going from Alpha -> Current Rawhide?
-Adam
2009/3/20 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>:
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:48 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>
> My perspective is from the user point of view. If the user is
> upgrading to a new release let's say and the process goes along for
> quite a while and then decides to bomb out because the rpm version
> needed to be newer then the user becomes confused. The software should
> take care of this. So if any package in the whole update requires a
> newer yum/rpm then I think yum should go do that first.
Upgrading to a new release is precisely when this will fail. The "new
yum" and "new rpm" would require all the other new packages in order to
be functional. There is no way to use the new yum without the rest of
the new stuff.
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