You are reading too much into the man page (or the man page is poorly written). "... better for distro-version changes" does not equate to "... can implement distro version changes without any help". poc On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:40 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: > You mean the man page is in error? It says: > > If the --obsoletes flag is present yum will include package > obsoletes in its calculations - this makes it better for dis- > tro-version changes, for example: upgrading from somelinux 8.0 > to somelinux 9. > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > From: pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx > > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:40:43 -0430 > > Subject: Re: Using yum to upgrade from fc7 to fc8 > > > > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:49 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: > >> The yum man page says that if yum is invoked as > >> yum --obsoletes update > >> it will upgrade from older distro release to next higher > >> one (or I assume more recent release). > > > > You assume wrongly. yum will update from one package version to another, > > but not automatically from one distro release to another. It can be > > persuaded to do so but you have to work at it, see: > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq > > > > poc > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > _________________________________________________________________ > Back to work after baby–how do you know when you’re ready? > http://lifestyle.msn.com/familyandparenting/articleNW.aspx?cp-documentid=5797498&ocid=T067MSN40A0701A > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
