On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:15:05PM +0800, Arindam Dey wrote: > Hi all, > > There has already been lots off discussion on the issue mentioned in the > subject but the invariable conclusion has been that everything goes > smoothly in the end. > > Having read numerous of those mails I went ahead and upgraded. Lo and > behold I have a spanking new system with everything upgraded. Mind you > everything "upgraded" new things like yum etc have NOT been installed. > > The "Add or remove packages" does not list yum etc..This may also result > in the problem with this package for which I believe there is already an > update available on Jeremy Katz page. I am consistently writing etc > since yum is the obvious thing which has not been installed I am still > trying to figure out what else is missing. > > Is this how upgrade is meant to behave ?? I mean is upgrade only > supposed to upgrade the packages already present and miss out the new > and very important packages like yum in this case ??? > > Somebody please clarify on this. > > Thanks, > > -- > Arindam Dey I think you have characterized the upgrade correctly. Only things that exist are upgraded. At least that is my understanding. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
