On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 11:18 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > The "(y/n)?" check during a pretty normal "yum -y update" comes very > early, even before downloading the packages and also prior to the > crucial transaction check. It is safe to use the normal "yum -y > update" mode, provided that yum doesn't suffer from a serious bug. Yum > is not so stupid to remove any packages that would break RPM package > dependencies during an update. Certainly it would not pull away its > own requirements, like rpm-python. Though, even if it's not going to shoot *itself* in the foot, you could well update some package to a broken one (one that's not previously been noticed as being broken, or has been noticed but not yet fixed). At least if you check the list, you can make a decision about whether you want to update what's on offer, and whether you fancy putting up with a few hundred megs of updates, should a swag of dependencies go along for the ride. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
