[Yum] yum update yum

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Oct 2 03:36:39 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:27, Francois Massonneau wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry if it's a basic question, but I've tried to update the yum version 
> I'm running, and as root, I've run :
> "yum update yum"
> and after dozen of lines like those, this is what I got :

> package rpm-build needs rpm = 4.1.1 (not provided)
> package rpm-devel needs rpm = 4.1.1 (not provided)
> [root at celtes2 fm]#

this is a bug that has been fixed in the daily versions.


> [fm at celtes2 fm]$ rpm -qa | grep yum
> yum-2.0.3-1
> [fm at celtes2 fm]$
> 
> Someone post a link to grab a version for redhat 8.0, but I've been 
> unable to upgrade using them.

2.0.3 is the latest version not counting one of the daily releases.

> Is there a parameter "-v" or "-version", to know exactly which version 
> we are running ? Thanks Francois

yum --version


-sv





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