[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Add an upgrade-all command. Based on idea by Michael Schwendt.

[James Antill]

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 00:21 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 07:09 PM, James Antill wrote:
> >  The idea is that sometimes you want to say "make sure the entire
> > dep. tree for package XYZ is at the latest version"
> > 
> >  Things this patch doesn't do:
> > 
> > 1. local packages.
> > 
> > 2. implied deps. ... like @buildsys / @core.
> > 
> > 3. recursive updates for updates that add new deps.
> 
>   4. update the yum.8 man page ;)

 Yeh, I always do those in a separate patch because they more often hit
conflicts when backporting. FWIW:

+.IP "\fBupgrade-all\fP"
+This command works like a simple version of "\fBupgrade\fP" however all the
+depedencies for the package specified are also checked for upgrades. Thus.
+"upgrade-all yum" will check for updates on many packages, including glibc.
+.IP