[Yum] yum upgrade <options>

[Troy Dawson]

seth vidal wrote:
>>Anyway, I'm sure there is a reason that you don't have any package options on 
>>yum upgrade, but if those reasons are trivial, we would like to request being 
>>able to do 'yum upgrade [package]'
> 
> 
> So let me make sure I understand how you want this to work.
> 
> user X says:
>  yum upgrade foobar
> 
> they want it to see if foobar is obsoleted somewhere and push what
> obsoletes it in for install/update?
> 
> Is that the goal?
> 
Yes, mostly.
They want it to see if foobar is obsoleted somewhere and push what obsoletes 
it in for the install/update, but if it isn't obsoleted, but only updated, 
then just to update foobar.

so if you have
foobar-1.0 -> installed
and
foobar-1.1 -> repository
fembot-6.6 (obsoletes foobar) -> repository

yum upgrade foobar
would replace foobar 1.0 with fembot 6.6

But if you have
foobar-1.0 -> installed
and
foobar-1.1 -> repository

yum upgrade foobar
would just replace foobar 1.0 with foobar 1.1

Troy

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Fermilab  ComputingDivision/OSS  CSI Group
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