Rough upgrade to FC4

Bill Mills-Curran bill at mills-curran.net
Mon Jan 23 14:04:56 EST 2006


On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:06:07PM -0500, Paul Norton wrote:
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> Matthew Gillen wrote:
> > That's why you're almost always better off using 'yum' instead of
> > 'up2date'.  Yum is smart enough to track down and install dependencies
> > for you.  I would abandon using up2date unless you're using RedHat
> > Enterprise Linux (which you're obviously not).
> 
> I could not agree more Matthew.  Good advice.
> 
> Yum has always worked very well for me, especially when upgrading from
> core version to core version.
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> Paul Norton

One question...  Does yum use the same config files as up2date?  I
believe that I need to convert, but I'm not sure.  I was surprised
that my FC3 system even used up2date -- I had believed it was all
converted to yum.

Thanks,
Bill



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