[Yum] upgrade and update

[nathan r. hruby]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> Hey all,
>  I was doing some thinking about upgrade vs update and the confusion
> around those two.
> 
> to clarify:
> yum update - only updates packages you have installed does not include
> or consult an obsoletes lists
> yum upgrade - does updates + obsoletes
> 
> I was thinking maybe dump upgrade as an option entirely and include a
> new option - like -o/--obsoletes to include the obsoletes lookup.
> 
> also have it matched with an obsoletes=1 in the config file.
> 
> That would remove one source of confusion and let people who want to use
> obsoletes, always, just make a yum.conf modification and not modify
> their yum.cron job.
> 

Sounds like a keen idea.  It'd also be nice if you left the upgrade action 
in yum and have it emit a warning that the feature is going away soon and 
the user should read the manpage :)

-n
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