On Tue, 4 May 2004, Jeremy Brown wrote:
Bob Shaffer ][ wrote:
Are you telling me that "yum update" and "yum upgrade" will completely upgrade everything? I've never used the "upgrade" option thinking it was synonym for "update" in that context. If I can actually use yum to upgrade my system to FC2, that might be what I'll do.
Err, that was a mistype there. It's apt where you have to "update", then "upgrade". WIth yum, "update" will do it all.
Actually 'yum upgrade' is different - It processes 'obsoletes' whereas update doesn't. (check manpage)
'yum upgrade' is the prefered way as it can handle 'XFree86 -> xorg', 'redhat-config -> system-config' changes which took place with FC2. There are a few other changes that yum can't handle (apparently anaconda does). One of the notable ones is selinux (fixable with kernel boot option selinux=0) Don't know if there are others.
Satish