[Yum] Updating packages in use.

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jan 3 06:17:13 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 15:31 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> First off, yum-2.1 rocks.  All the problems I had with previous versions of
> yum are fixed.  Now it is a wonderful tool that don't understand how I
> managed without before.
> 
> Here's my question.  Is it OK to update packages that are in use?  Is it OK
> to update QT if the QT libs are being used?  Is it OK to update xorg while
> X is running?
> 
> The reason I ask is that the most frequently updated packages are always the
> kde-redhat packages...and of couse I'm always running KDE.
> 
> Hmm, I guess this is actually an RPM question.  Oh well...Thanks!
> 

yes. it's okay.

don't remove packages that are in use, though.

that's a bad idea :)

-sv





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