On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:43, shrek-m@xxxxxx wrote: > Arindam Dey wrote: > > >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 ??? > > imho this is a very good decision. > > you can read the release-notes and check your upgrade.log > > > # vi /root/upgrade.log > > eg. > i will install yum and rhgb on my notebook > > mount cd #1 > > # rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/yum* > # rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/rhgb* > > # yum check-updates Thanks everybody who answered I just wanted somebody to corroborate my experience. I faced the same when upgrading from RH 7.3 to RH 9 that time the change was too vast for me to even start thinking which are the missing packages. I just went ahead and took backup and reinstalled cleanly this time though I will take the pains and install(yum, rhgb(Thanks Shrek had forgotten this one) etc) and uninstall (galeon which is segfaulting now). -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739
