On 4/2/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:22 -0500, Nat Gross wrote: > > On 3/31/06, Rickey Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snip> > > I was under the impression that if I didn't use yum to install [any > > software] then yum could/would be confused by it later and would *not* > > automatically update to later revs. > > > Yum will try to update anything that has been installed as an rpm. It > uses the rpm database to identify what is installed. It does get confused based on the packaging of the rpm's. It once *deleted* [active!] mySql from my system. > Do you have the fedora-release package installed? You mean the yum repo for fedora-release? I have three fedora repos enabled: 1)fedora-core, 2)fedora-updates, 3)fedora-extras. I also have the livna repo enabled. By the way, Livna changed their entire naming scheme for FC5 so not to clash with other repos. >I assume since you make this statement you probably have FC5, and may have > done an install as an upgrade. Yes. I installed as an upgrade fc5 over fc4. But I miss the point. Thanks nat
