[Yum-devel] How does YUM update YUM

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Creative Innovative wrote:

> Folks,
>  
> I am really curious to know, how does YUM take care of updating to a newer version of YUM.
>  
> Normally, when there is a package upgrade, the older version of the package is first erased, and then the newer version
> of the package is installed.

no, you have that backward.

an update is:
1. install the new pkg
2. erase the old one - avoiding any files that were overwritten by the new 
one.

>
-sv