On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:24 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 1:30 AM -0400 4/30/07, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > >On 4/29/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> (After > >> install, do "yum update yum", then "yum update", then "yum grouplist", then > >> "yum groupinstall <available groups you want>".) > > > >Don't upgrade yum separately first. While it may seem like a good > >strategy, I got burned by doing so in this exact situation. The yum > >got updated but the various python libs it depened on did not. This > >left a non runnable yum and a dependency hell to sort out manually. > ... > > This cannot happen with yum. OK, it can, but it would be a very very > serious bug if it did, either in yum or in the packages themselves, and > likely would be reported many times by more diligent people and fixed very > quickly. > > So update yum first, in case the initial version had a bug that was fixed. That's why I like smart. It works really well. Ric
