On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, linux r wrote: > Thanks for asking. I am not near a Fedora machine at the moment. To > answer your question, the answer is, 'no, it does not answer my > questions'. That is, I have also looked at the man page, but it does > not do what the man page says it should do. > > yum update packagename > > will try to update my _entire_system_ regardless of packages. > Weird. By the way this is with packages known to be installed. > Maybe is has to do with some particular package that is interfering > with yum, who knows. I am trying to 'force' it to upgrade a single > package, not the whole system - which is of course time consuming, > unnecessary, and a hassle as well. by 'force' if you mean ignore 'package depencencies' aka. 'rpm --force' - yum won't do that. > I will run it when I get home and post it if I can reproduce the > error. Yes, please do. Satish
