On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:02:41PM +0000, Ed Swierk wrote: > <akonstam <at> trinity.edu> writes: > > Would you expect an upograding program to upgrade to packages with a > > lowere version number? You can't expect any upgrading system to know > > that to go to a hoigher version of the distribution lower versions of > > packages need to be installed. > > In general, no, of course not. > > But I would expect the Fedora Core 4 installer to know how to upgrade official > Fedora Core 3 packages, even ones newer than the original FC4. > > At least it should cry for help when it doesn't know what to do. > > It should not merrily march along, ignoring critical packages like kernel and > glibc, and leaving the system an unholy mix of old and new. > > --Ed Maybe, but what you are asking is hard to do when the driving algorithm of the upgrader is to replace rpms with lower version numbers with those with higher version numbers, -- ======================================================================= I am having FUN... I wonder if it's NET FUN or GROSS FUN? ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
