[Yum] update or upgrade?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jan 23 06:59:29 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 19:08, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
> >  and adds programs it believes the average user should have
> 
> He - that was an interesting remark. What makes yum think that you 
> should have a specific package?

it doesn't.

update = get new versions of what is installed and any new dependencies
you need

upgrade = get new versions of what is installed -but look to see what
packages obsolete what you have installed and get them.

that's all.

-sv





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