[Yum] request clarification

[nathan r. hruby]

On 1 May 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> I've done them from 7.1->7.3 and now from 7.3->9 but major version
> updates are given to packaging errors (someone forgets that name of foo
> is now bar so bar needs to obsolete foo, etc)
> 
> So occasionally it takes some concerted effort to watch for which pkgs
> have old legacy things that can block an upgrade.
> 

As always! :)

> oh and you should always use yum upgrade for a distro-version change.
> 
> obsoletes should be consulted in those cases.
> 

Thanks for the clarification!

-n

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